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I think China is doing more for renewable energy than any other country combined. Bar maybe India. They are building solar panel, wind turbines at a frantic pa
by alex_duf 7y ago
I think China is doing more for renewable energy than any other country combined. Bar maybe India.
They are building solar panel, wind turbines at a frantic pace, pushing really hard for electrification because of said pollution.
Yes they are still building new coal stations, yes atrocious things are happening there, but renewable energy? China is the reason it's so cheap
- WhompingWindows 7y agoThis is a one-sided hot-take. China is not the only reason it's so cheap. If you look at the history of solar and wind energy, the USA and Europe were absolutely crucial in innovation and cost cutting for the first few doublings of production. For instance, Germany was the biggest early-adopter of solar. Furthermore, the US has time and again been the innovators on the research-front, though we are ceding that ground more and more to EU and China today. China has done some things very well, namely scaling up production massively and incentivizing via govt programs, both of which the USA has struggled to do. To say China is the only reason, that just ignores history.
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- ClumsyPilot 7y agoThe fact remains that currently, china is investing more in renewables than the rest of the world combined. You are right, Europe and US pioneered the industry, but that makes the fact that they are currently fiddling while Rome burns even more damning.