Mark Zuckerberg Either Really Wants China To Like Him Or Has A Death Wish

1. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has made clear his love of China, but this is ridiculous: Friday, when the local air-quality index (AQI) was about 300, Zuckerberg and his team decided to go for a run in Beijing.

“It’s great to be back in Beijing!” Zuckerberg exclaimed, posting along a photo on Facebook, which is blocked in China.

(Hong Kong student activist Joshua Wong pointed out the elephant in the room — that people in China reply on VPN to browse sites like Facebook and YouTube — when commented on the post: “How to update your Facebook in China?”)

2. For those of you who are less familiar with the AQI, it means the air they took in was either “very unhealthy” or “hazardous.” Unless, they wore any special sort of nasal air filters.

“Very unhealthy” air means that it can cause “increased aggravation of heart or lung disease and premature mortality in persons with cardiopulmonary disease and the elderly; increased respiratory effects in general population,” according to U.S. Department of State’s Mission China project.

(And if they were wearing nasal filters, that’s a problem: they don’t really work.)

3. So here’s where it gets fun: if you pronounce “Facebook” slowly, syllable by syllable – “Fei Si Bu Ke,” in Chinese, “非死不可,” it means “have to die.” It’s been a widely-known pun among Chinese internet users for years, but now is it’s time to shine.

4. By this point, Mark Zuckerberg has made his point very clear to the world – he loves China, like, crazy in love.

5. He’s been practicing speaking Mandarin. One of the first places he flashed his Mandarin was Tsinghua University, one of China’s top elite universities. His Mandarin was awkward, but he got a lot of encouragement from the audience to carry on.

6. By the Chinese New Year last month, Zuckerberg’s Mandarin had caught up with his Chinese-American wife, Priscilla Chan, and even surpassed her, at least from the way it sounded.

7. And that’s Zuckerberg wearing a red tie, wooing Xi Jinping, China’s president, by speaking only in Mandarin last year.

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Apple Inc. (AAPL) Launches New Clean Energy Programs in China To Promote Low-Carbon ...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) announced two new programs aimed at reducing the carbon footprint of its manufacturing partners in China. The programs will avoid over 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution in the country between now and 2020, equivalent to taking nearly 4 million passenger vehicles off the road for one year.

Apple also announced that construction on 40 megawatts of solar projects in the Sichuan Province is now complete. These solar installations produce more than the total amount of electricity used by Apple’s offices and retail stores in China, making Apple’s operations carbon neutral in China.

“Climate change is one of the great challenges of our time, and the time for action is now,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “The transition to a new green economy requires innovation, ambition and purpose. We believe passionately in leaving the world better than we found it and hope that many other suppliers, partners and other companies join us in this important effort.”

First, Apple is significantly expanding its clean-energy investments in China. Apple plans to build more than 200 megawatts of solar projects in the northern, eastern and southern grid regions of China, which will produce the equivalent of the energy used by more by than 265,000 Chinese homes in a year and will begin to offset the energy used in Apple’s supply chain.

Second, Apple is launching a new initiative to drive its manufacturing partners to become more energy efficient and to use clean energy for their manufacturing operations. Apple will partner with suppliers in China to install more than 2 gigawatts of new clean energy in the coming years.

Apple also will share best practices in procuring clean energy and building high-quality renewable energy projects, and provide hands-on assistance to some suppliers in areas like energy efficiency audits, regulatory guidance and building strong partnerships to bring new clean energy projects to China.

As part of Apple’s industry-leading program, Foxconn will construct 400 megawatts of solar, starting in the Henan Province, by 2018. Foxconn has committed to generate as much clean energy as its Zhengzhou factory consumes in final production of iPhone.

“We are excited to embark on this initiative with Apple. Our companies share a vision for driving sustainability and I hope that this renewable energy project will serve as a catalyst for continued efforts to promote a greener ecosystem in our industry and beyond,” said Terry Gou, founder and CEO of Foxconn Technology Group. “Sustainability is a core pillar in Foxconn’s strategy and we are committed to investing in green manufacturing.”

“Being responsible, protecting air and water, and driving clean energy are at the heart of Apple’s commitment to China,” said Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives. “These projects go beyond Apple’s operations in China to help our suppliers adopt clean renewable energy.”

Apple has taken significant steps to protect the environment by transitioning from fossil fuels to clean energy. Today the company is powering 100 percent of its operations in China and the US, and more than 87 percent of its worldwide operations, with renewable energy. (Original Source)

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An air filter is used to purify the air of unwanted waste materials such as dust and microbes. The most common types of air filters usually consist of a filtering material, sealant, frame, faceguard, and a gasket.

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He's back from China - energized

It’s one of the fastest-growing industries in the country and frequently produces back-and-forth, myth-vs.-reality arguments between its strongest advocates and foes. 

And while fossil fuels are not going away anytime soon, the idea that one day we will be using renewable energy as our primary power source doesn’t seem to be vanishing, either. 

That’s one reason Andy Bell went to China. 

Bell, the department chair of engineering for Ivy Tech Community College Northeast, spent a month overseas working on projects in what many consider the world’s epicenter of solar panel production. 

He plans to implement what he saw and learned in China into his department’s curriculum because even if they don’t work with renewable energy, future engineers will need to be well versed in the topic. 

“We’re looking at it from the standpoint that students need to know about it,” he said. “They may not work in the area, but they need to know about it.”

Bell spent from mid-October to Thanksgiving in Wuxi, China, about three hours from Shanghai, where many solar panels are built and manufactured. 

He gave lectures, exchanged teaching techniques and ideas with a college there, and even worked on a project building a solar panel, he said.

Bell’s interest in renewable energy has been budding for awhile, with a trip to Costa Rica to study alternative energy forms under his belt and another one to the Dominican Republic scheduled for March. 

“I’m very interested in how alternative energy can be used to help quality of life, especially for disadvantaged people,” Bell said. 

Solar generating capacity in the United States grew more than fivefold from 2011 to 2014, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. 

According to the Solar Foundation, an organization advancing solar power, job growth in the industry grew 20 percent in 2013, far outpacing growth in other industries. 

Still, what can be produced using solar power in the U.S. amounts to less than 1 percent of the country’s generating capacity, and the Environmental Protection Agency projects that only 9 percent of the country’s power will come from renewable energy by 2030. 

“The United States as a whole ought to do more to capitalize on the sunlight,” Bell said. 

That’s what he thought as he looked at the solar farms he saw in China, or the multitude of electric vehicles being driven. Towns and homes relied heavily on alternative energies there, he said, especially solar. 

“They’ve really tapped into solar,” he said. 

He doesn’t know how exactly yet the ideas he brought back from China will be implemented, but he knows they will. 

Because solar power and other green energy ideas are not going away. 

And neither are future engineers who need to know about them. 

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