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Thats called a depression, its like covid, its destructive and may lead to societal decomplexification, aka china internal conflict. Celebrating catastrophic de
by shadyKeystrokes 11mo ago
Thats called a depression, its like covid, its destructive and may lead to societal decomplexification, aka china internal conflict. Celebrating catastrophic developments positives is ghoulish.
- aeonfox 11mo agoFTFA: > meant the country’s energy sector emissions remained flat, even as the demand for electricity increased. Emphasis added.
- shadyKeystrokes 11mo agoShouldn't future coal powerplants be vanishing then? https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-coal-plant-tracker/ https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-coal-plant-t...
- aeonfox 11mo agoShouldn't entire cities of skyscrapers with no inhabitants never be built then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underoccupied_developments_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underoccupied_developments_in_... China tends to build things they don't use or are under utilised due to weird incentives at the province and national level. This include coal power plants. > In 2020 over 40% of plants were estimated to be running at a net loss and new plants may become stranded assets. In 2021 some plants were reported close to bankruptcy due to being forbidden to raise electricity prices in line with high coal prices. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_power_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_power_in_China Beyond trying to artificially inflate their productivity figures, another possible explanation for their weird stockpiling is that these resources could be used in a war time. Nuclear winter? Just turn the coal power stations back on.