love traffic chaos with "eastern charm" characteristic without leaving home? Try Paris :-))))))))))))

@AlexKMG

the gold mining industry has never telling us that it's goal is to save the world by being a solution to the energy shortage/environmental/pollutin..etc. so the comparison you were trying to make is a bit "unfair." :-)

@AlexKMG

solar hot water systems are not that innocent, actually. if you notice the tube is shinny blue in color.:-) in manufacturing, barium, aluminium nitride....sometimes fluoride are used, and a cocktail of chemicals are used in cleaning before putting that solar selective coatings that giving that blue tint look.

now, while i am having a "free" hot bath with the thingie on the top of the roof, in the back of my mind, i know the notion of having something "free" has taken on a new meaning :-) often, at the expenses of other people's health or life. do i feel guilty? no, i meant, i dont really know. :-( it is up to china to do something for its own people. on that point, i am feeling better. again, not really. :-(

Even the solar hot water system is not real free. If you do a bit of research, you will find it produces toxic waste during manufacturing. In china, that industry (solar panels included) is thought to save the world, actually makes a lot of rural people sick, from mining to get the raw key ingredients to final packaging. So the USs imposing a high duty on the imports from china might have good, tho not intentional, effect for some Chinese people. :-)

In BJ, kitchen knives, choppers are taken off shop shelves. People are using their nice Mac book to cut meat and veggies, I guess. :-))))))) Internet? What Internet?