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That makes sense. They need that electricity now not later. But as soon as they have an alternative* they will decommission. They continue to have a lower per
by varelse 5y ago
That makes sense. They need that electricity now not later. But as soon as they have an alternative* they will decommission.
They continue to have a lower per capita footprint than the West. And I could be wrong but it would be consistent with everything else I've seen them do in the past decade - I spent part of the year over there every year for the past decade until the pandemic and that's just my take. YMMV.
*https://spectrum.ieee.org/china-closing-in-on-thorium-nuclear-reactor https://spectrum.ieee.org/china-closing-in-on-thorium-nuclea...
- coryrc 5y agoThere are two Chinas. One has comparable per-capita emissions as the US. The other is very poor. They have moved hundreds of millions from the latter to the former. They have hundreds of millions left to go and are making excellent progress.
- varelse 5y agoNo disagreement. Watch them make everything so much worse before they make it so much better. Their eyes are on the prize, not so much the road they take IMO. Time will tell.