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Honestly I was hoping for more.
by two_handfuls 3y ago
Honestly I was hoping for more.
- FredPret 3y agoLife can always be more wonderful. Doesn't mean it's not pretty great already
- Synaesthesia 3y agoThere’s no reason why China should be leading the U.S. in transitioning to green, it just shows that it can be done. Lots of European countries did it too.
- toast0 3y agoChina is still rapidly expanding generation capacity. [1] The US has had relatively stable capacity for the last 15 years [2]. China is growing generation of all types; if it's transitioning to green, that's because it's growing green production more than others, but it's still building new coal. On the other hand, the US's transition is a more real transition: coal is being replaced by a mix of natural gas, wind and solar. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China#/media/File:China-electricity-prod-source-stacked.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China#/m... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_of_the_United_States#/media/File:USA_electricity_production.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_of_the_Unit...