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Analysis: China’s clean energy pushes coal to record-low 53% share of power in May 2024
(www.carbonbrief.org)
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Record low share but still record high(ish) quantity.
Even with everything China is impressively doing its not fast enough to keep up with current power demand growth (hopefully just short-term, decades).
So is coal power production going down, or are renewables growing faster?
Edit: looks like they're still adding coal capacity
Yes, that edit.
Im not trying to be hard on renewables at all, just that in terms of greenhouse gases we are still dumping more and more of them into the air. Just the growth of our carbon farts is a bit slower.
The power demand growth is insane, and the cost might be too high.
IIRC China does not yet see an easy way to solve the whole "in the winter the sun shines less" problem... So here we are.
Nuclear is pretty good for base load, but they're building may of those too.
China already has far lower emissions per capita than most western countries, especially so compared to US.
But the Chinese people have no right to live as Americans. Obama said so.
Yes, def (tho recent beef & pork ghg emissions have actually closed the gap considerably). Murikan boomers lived reckless lives on account of (global) future generations in so many ways.
I was merely pointing out the scales, how giant absolute numbers both in actual emissions & actual growth we are talking about.
I mean, it's basically just saying that more people live in China at the end of the day. Not exactly news.