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Shrinking? China is growing their coal capacity (1). What people mistake is China is not "for renewables". They are for maximizing absolute output. That means t

• alex_duf 1y ago
  I didn't mention any shrinking. I just said we'd passed the CO2 per capita peak. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?country=~OWID_WRL https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?c... This means for any human being we are emitting less carbon than we use to. It's not a big win but I'll take any good trend at the moment.
• hoerensagen 1y ago
  China ist still adding coal plants but their capacity factor is falling. In fact Chinas emissions have probably already peaked. https://www.economist.com/china/2025/05/29/chinas-carbon-emissions-may-have-peaked https://www.economist.com/china/2025/05/29/chinas-carbon-emi... https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-clean-energy-just-put-chinas-co2-emissions-into-reverse-for-first-time/ https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-clean-energy-just-put-c... https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/china-coal-plants https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/china-coal-plants