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> The US has cheaper AND cleaner electricity than China This is a nice read: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2017/05/15/432141/everything
by dbrgn 9y ago
> The US has cheaper AND cleaner electricity than China
This is a nice read: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2017/05/15/432141/everything-think-know-coal-china-wrong/ https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2017/0...
Quote: "The nation is on track to overdeliver on the emissions reduction commitments it put forward under the Paris climate agreement"
And: "Compared with the Chinese coal fleet, even the best U.S. plants are running older, less efficient technologies."
- maxerickson 9y agoChina has to clean up their coal power plants though, they have a lot of them and need the power they produce. They consume ~5x the coal that the US consumes: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=16271 https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=16271 Cleaner coal plants in China are still dirtier than natural gas plants in the US.
- dragontamer 9y agoUS Coal may be behind, but overall, the US is cleaner. US has more nuclear, natural gas, and more renewables (Hydro, Wind, Solar) than China.
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoThere's a few way to slice the data. China greenhouse gas emissions per capita are less than half the USA's.[1] 1. https://wri.org/blog/2014/11/6-graphs-explain-world%E2%80%99s-top-10-emitters https://wri.org/blog/2014/11/6-graphs-explain-world%E2%80%99...
- joelwilliamson 9y agoIn 2016, China had 70 GW of installed solar power, compared to 40 GW in the US. They installed another 50 GW in 2017. China has 320 GW of installed hydro power, compared to 80 in the US. China had 160 GW of installed wind power in 2016, compared to 80 in the US.