Plants are small but hardy and overwinters well. Generally will not produce fruit in the winter indoors but gets right to it when spring hits. The peppers are small and hot but necessary for that earthy, pungent spiciness for Thai and other cuisines.
It is the most widely used form of renewable energy, accounting for 16 percent of global electricity generation â 3,427 terawatt-hours of electricity production in 2010, and is expected to increase about 3.1% each year for the next 25 years.
Despite the Three Gorges dam's growing list of problems, however, hydropower remains an integralâand ostensibly greenâcomponent of China's energy mix. China still draws 82 percent of energy from coal, but large dams are crucial to the country's climate change program, which aims to increase its proportion of electricity from renewable resources from the current 7.2 percent to 15 percent by 2020.