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• brutusborn 3y ago
  https://globalenergymonitor.org/report/china-india-lead-us534-billion-global-gas-pipeline-build-out/ https://globalenergymonitor.org/report/china-india-lead-us53... There is a lot of fossil fuel development going on that doesn't make sense if renewables are cheaper. Especially in China where panels are actually made. I'm open to an alternative explanation, but I don't think it's inertia. Most industries switch to cheaper tech pretty soon after it becomes available.
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  • lovemenot 3y ago
    Social and political considerations can be components of inertia too. Consider China's fairly recent decision to stop funding new fossil fuel generation development outside its own borders, where social and political considerations should have minimal impact to Chinese citizens. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-says-it-will-stop-financing-coal-power-abroad/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/china-says-it-wil... China is starting to move in the right direction, but there's a ton of planning lag. China is by far the largest single consumer of solar panels. It also deploys more wind turbines than any other country. Two limiting factors are China's insatiable need for ever greater power generating capacity of any kind, and the surprisingly rapid uptake of renewables globally which has constrained new production.