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The proportion of China's electricity produced from fossil fuels (56%) is now lower than it is in the US (60%). What an absolutely MONSTROUS performance.
Of all the things to turn into a nation-v-nation contest, saving our shared atmosphere is the silliest.
If it drives more investment, I'm all for it.
Yea, wish we had a green race just like we had a space race during the 1st cold war, at leadt something useful would come out of it.
oh shit, "we are losing the green race" is excellent propaganda
The space race also created all sorts of new materials and technologies, but renewables would be more directly applicable.
We need more geen contests!! We're already reaching 1.5°C global warming faster than expected.
We have already reached 1.5°C
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.
But at what cost?!
Is that header photo a screenshot from No Man's Sky? 😅