3 ms·
Really not sure what your argument about China is. The vast majority of their energy production remains oil & coal. This follows from previous analysis that a f
by vlovich123 3y ago
Really not sure what your argument about China is. The vast majority of their energy production remains oil & coal. This follows from previous analysis that a focus on renewables means that your dependency on oil & coal remains. It’s telling that France is one of the few countries to go all in on nuclear & remains one of the few countries that has reliable year round carbon-free power generation (& a surplus that it exports to other countries). Germany went away from nuclear in favor of renewables & their reliance on fossil fuels went up.
If solar and wind were truly more scalable, they’d be significantly reducing our dependence on fossil fuels & yet they’re still not to this day. They offset some demand but demand grows faster than our ability to actually take away from fossil fuels.
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoChina has had the most dramatic rollout of nuclear. Less nimby and regulations. It could be considered a best case scenario: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-nuclear?tab=chart&time=2010..latest&country=~CHN https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-electricity-nuclear... And it pales beside the accelerating output of solar and wind: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-electricity-production-from-solar-and-wind?tab=chart&time=2010..latest&country=~CHN https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-electricity-prod... Which is the main reason why China, surprisingly, is on track to have peak CO2 emissions this year, 7 years ahead of their schedule: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-emissions-set-to-fall-in-2024-after-record-growth-in-clean-energy/ https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-emissions-set-to... It's a very dramatic demonstration of how your entire thesis is wrong. You should look into it.