Tokyo aiming to woo 2016 Olympics with vow to use 'green energy'

Thursday 12th February, 06:10 AM JST

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JeffLee at 08:02 AM JST - 12th February

How about bicycles? Set up bike paths and a public-bike rental system, and allowing bicycles on trains? In other words, do what many European countries have been doing for years.

Better than burying garbage and releasing all those dioxins (!)
tkoind2 at 09:27 AM JST - 12th February

Let's freeze Ishihara and the other Olympic supporters to reduce their emmissions and put an end to this nonsense of hosting the Olypmics here.

Dear IOC. Please choose some other place to hold the Olympics. We don't want it here only these greedy old guys want it here.
timorborder at 09:53 AM JST - 12th February

Actually, this "Green Energy" plan has also been called the "Ishihara Plan." It involves harnessing all the hot air exhaled by Blinky and putting it to good use.
Statistician at 10:21 AM JST - 12th February

If they want the Olympics their first move should be to dump Ishihara
nisegaijin at 10:52 AM JST - 12th February

i really hope tokyo doesn't get it so Ishihara would get sacked and they would stop closing clubs in roppongi to "improve image of tokyo"
Richard_the_First at 10:58 AM JST - 12th February

They are barking mad. Tokyo is not going to get it just eight years after Beijing. It amazes me that they can't see this, so are wasting their money. A US city will get it as it's due a return to N.America.
sangetsu at 12:46 PM JST - 12th February

Only in Japan can burning trash be called "green"!!! and any certificates issued in Japan are not worth the paper they are printed on.

As opposed to burying it or dumping it in the ocean as trash is disposed of in other countries? The trash must be disposed of in some way, and at least in Japan they are getting extra electricity in the process.

I think the certificate which Japan issues will be more than worth the paper they are printed on. Do you realize how hard it is to obtain garden variety certifications in Japan? How many of you have jumped through the multiple hoops necessary to get a visa? Or, worse yet, a drivers license?

I think the "green" approach is a rather good one. No one can argue that China's Olympics (though spectacular) were as far from green as Tokyo is from New York.
gogogo at 12:57 PM JST - 12th February

Burning of garbage is NOT green!
nandakandamanda at 03:39 PM JST - 12th February

Japan go green for two weeks? Nice thought. The concrete trucks for the building projects will run on electric power? The Olympic flame will burn with green gas, I guess. They'll scrap the new Tokyo Tower and build a green park instead, maybe. All the stadium floodlighting will be green and the fireworks will zoom up on green gunpowder. The programs/programmes will be printed on edible paper. All emergency vehicles will run carbon-free, and electric helicopters will monitor the marathons.

Maybe the easiest thing is to build an underground chamber filled with batteries which they can charge up beforehand from the grid. That should power everything nicely for two weeks.
30061015 at 04:42 PM JST - 12th February

woo

Sounds like a job for Hello Kitty.
Musubi at 10:57 PM JST - 12th February

I pray for Tokyo ^^^
Ninjazilla at 01:27 AM JST - 13th February

cant wait for the selection of Chicago,Ishihara is gonna have a hissy fit.
shouganaika at 01:30 AM JST - 13th February

they should wire his eyelids up to a generator at the moment he finds out he lost. he could power tokyo for days
stipend at 02:28 AM JST - 14th February

they should wire his eyelids up to a generator at the moment he finds out he lost. he could power tokyo for days

Gee I'm glad I don't live in Tokyo that I'd have to see him on tv every day :-)
ultradodgy at 01:03 PM JST - 16th February

Green Energy = Burning down Yoyohi Park