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China is convinced? Then China should tell China to stop building coal power plants. They burn slightly more coal than the rest of the world combined. http://

• papercrane 10y ago
  > China is convinced? Then China should tell China to stop building coal power plants. You realise you're source says they're doing exactly that? "In guidelines released on Monday, China halted plans for new coal-fired power stations in many parts of the country, and construction of some approved plants will be postponed until at least 2018." They've also gone all in on solar, having more installed capacity than any other nation. They're far from perfect, but they've started to acknowledge the problem at least.
  • problems 10y ago
    Not only that, but they've taken all these steps while they're bringing hundreds of millions of people out of abject poverty doing sustenance farming and into cities. Cities where they want things like electricity and cars. Look at the history of the world, development like that is usually fueled by burning as many hydrocarbons as possible. It's very good to see a country able now to at least start to break away from that. The rapidly dropping price of solar, thanks in large part to China plays a big role in that.
• yellow_postit 10y ago
  Despite setbacks China is also actively building up more nuclear capacity, something I wish was taken more seriously in the US http://energypost.eu/china-2016-year-nuclear-power/ http://energypost.eu/china-2016-year-nuclear-power/
• hayavuk 10y ago
  China also has a sizable population to match.