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The graph show emissions going down in Africa, slow but steady. In fact they are going down everywhere (even globally) except for Asia. China right now is growi
by h0l0cube 3y ago
The graph show emissions going down in Africa, slow but steady. In fact they are going down everywhere (even globally) except for Asia. China right now is growing its coal stations alongside renewables capacity as ‘peakers’, but it doesn’t have as much access to sunlight as do much of the rest of the developing world. As it’s renewable capacity grows it will need its peakers less. India is scaling up renewables rapidly too, and will have a similar short term bump as its emerging middle class consume per capita something closer to what the west already does. The main issue may be island nations that don’t have the land for solar and will have to rely on more expensive options for renewable energy
- pstrateman 3y agoReally? China doesn't have as much access to the sun. That's an absurd cope.
- h0l0cube 3y agoCompared to Africa or equatorial nations in Asia. But it’s not cope, because China is building plenty of solar. 216 GW last year alone according to a cursory googling https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-installed-solar-power-capacity-rises-552-2023-2024-01-26/#:~:text=BEIJING%2C%20Jan%2026%20(Reuters),Energy%20Agency%20showed%20on%20Friday https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-installed-sol....
- KptMarchewa 3y agoNot much gets through the smog.
- D-Coder 3y agoThe smog is in the cities. It does not cover the entire country.
- ben_w 3y agoIndeed. While this requires them to do more with long distance power transmission, they are, in fact, in the process of doing more with long distance power transmission. In the meantime, they're building more of everything else, too. So… a mixed bag, really. There's good stuff and bad there, on the energy front.
- rstuart4133 3y agoSomeone should tell those silly Chinese to look out the window and check if they actually have access to the sun before installing solar panels, because they are installing them at every increasing rates: https://www.statista.com/statistics/673444/china-solar-power-generation-china/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/673444/china-solar-power... /s
- pstrateman 3y agoThe graph showing emissions decreasing in Africa is from the consumption of energy decreasing, not from more solar/wind or something. Simply put they're getting poorer and using fewer resources as a result. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use?tab=chart&country=Lower-middle-income+countries~Upper-middle-income+countries~High-income+countries~Low-income+countries https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use?tab...
- h0l0cube 3y ago> The graph showing emissions decreasing in Africa is from the consumption of energy decreasing Africa is steadily increasing its energy consumption actually https://www.statista.com/statistics/265590/primary-energy-consumption-in-africa/#:~:text=Primary%20energy%20consumption%20in%20Africa%20amounted%20to%20nearly%2020.3%20exajoules,peak%20in%20the%20latter%20year https://www.statista.com/statistics/265590/primary-energy-co.... > Simply put they're getting poorer and using fewer resources as a result. Or energy efficiency is also now cost effective. LEDs are the laziest and most obvious example that come to mind. But even any appliance you buy today has less power consumption due to inexorable march of technological progress.