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Why is China's government corrupt? specifically when it comes to solar? Are they not accused of the opposite, overdoing solar? Help me understand your critique.
by kiproping 3mo ago
Why is China's government corrupt? specifically when it comes to solar? Are they not accused of the opposite, overdoing solar? Help me understand your critique.
- AnotherGoodName 3mo agoThe have hardly any solar per capita compared to Australia. They are occasionally held up as an example by misguided westerners as if what they’ve achieved is an example of good policy on solar when it’s utterly dwarfed on a per capita basis by countries like Australia.
- zardo 3mo agoThey also have hardly any GDP per capita compared to Australia.
- dmoy 3mo agoAnd the geography (especially in the more populated areas) is like 60-70% mountains and hills and shit. Australia has significantly more flat land for easy solar builds, with 1/50th the population.
- anakaine 3mo agoAustralia tends to do far more rooftop solar than it does solar farming, so the requirement for flat land is really.more a requirement for houses not to be in valleys surrounded by mountains.
- inigyou 3mo agoThat doesn't actually mean anything though. It's a measurement several layers abstracted from the thing that matters, which is how many panels they can build and deploy.
- lenkite 3mo agoFor every single person alive in Australia, there >52 alive in China. So comparing solar per capita to Australia is a useless metric.