Perhaps one of te best things about this recession is that fact that commodity pricing and stimulus packages have essentially increased not only the affordability of many things, and for China that means big investments in wind energy.

China has set a target for renewable energy consumption of 40 percent of the market by the year 2050.

The news comes as it emerges that China will have 100 GW of wind power capacity by 2020, more than three times the 30 GW the government set as a target 18 months ago.

But, not a country to shy away from building the tallest, longest, widest, or most … of anything, Wang Jun, director of the National Energy Administration’s renewable energy department, said:

Renewable energy will become the mainstream power supply in 2050 from a supplementary role in 2010.” He envisaged a future with heating dependent on solar and geothermal power, cars driven using biofuels and families owning their own photovoltaic power stations, turning the country from the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases to one of its smallest.

Big dreams in a big country.  Like Texas.. but BIGGER