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It’s not happy feel good shit – China is installing as many renewables as they possibly can, while building more nuclear than anyone else, and it’s still not en
by conradev 2y ago
It’s not happy feel good shit – China is installing as many renewables as they possibly can, while building more nuclear than anyone else, and it’s still not enough electricity for their growing economy. It illustrates the constraints because they built all of those panels themselves, and they’re the best at making them.
A lot of the coal capacity they are building, though, will be used for peaking, just like a lot of our natural gas plants.
- melling 2y agoCoal emits twice as much co2 as natural gas. It also emits mercury, which makes it to the United States. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09080-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09080-6 By the way, Carl Sagan predicted the China coal problem in 1985 https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI?si=_PwDnBnOwwqCRBGX https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI?si=_PwDnBnOwwqCRBGX