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And yet the Chinese are installing new wind capacity far faster than the US. How does that work?
by gns24 10y ago
And yet the Chinese are installing new wind capacity far faster than the US. How does that work?
- grzm 10y agoSpeculation: China's power needs are growing more rapidly, so there's more additional power coming online in China. While, in the US, power consumption growth is slower. A larger percentage of overall power sources need to be replaced, where there's less pressure to do so.
- gns24 10y agoChina's power consumption has plateaued and it currently has massive over-capacity - so much so that it's halted the construction of some new coal plants. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-to-halt-construction-on-coal-fired-power-plants-in-15-regions/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-to-halt-con...
- grzm 10y agoThanks for the link. Puts the lie to my speculation :) Do you have a link for China's wind-powered generation capacity?
- cyphar 10y ago[It's a Donald Trump quote.]
- bobsgame 10y ago:-)
- briandear 10y agoThey aren't doing that to stop 'climate change'; the are doing it to stop actual pollution -- as in particulate pollution that has made places like Beijing uninhabitable. The Chinese would gladly let the Earth get a half degree warmer because that would mean less need for coal for heating, thus reducing their particulate pollution even more. They aren't scared of the CO2 boogeyman, but of actual, cancer causing particulate pollution. They aren't in to the "global warming" thing because they aren't looking for a means to control the means of production or income distribution -- they already do. They have a desire for reducing pollution and achieving energy independence -- they don't buy into to the sky-is-falling hysteria promoted by Western anti-capitalists. Rather ironic one might think.