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US energy usage is flat in real terms since 2000 despite skyrocketing population growth. In per capita terms, it's plummeting. China builds hundreds of coal pl
by 0xy 6d ago
US energy usage is flat in real terms since 2000 despite skyrocketing population growth. In per capita terms, it's plummeting.
China builds hundreds of coal plants a year while they are exempt from scrutiny.
- nxm 6d agoDon't forget India as well
- SanjayMehta 6d agoIndia increased renewables drastically in the last 10-12 years. https://mnre.gov.in/en/year-wise-achievement/ https://mnre.gov.in/en/year-wise-achievement/
- tzs 5d agoIndia emits 30% less total CO2 than the US and 84% less per capita than the US, and is massively expanding renewables. For their population even without the renewables they are using far less than their share of any fair way to allocate whatever we decide we have to limit worldwide emissions to.
- Timon3 6d agoSince 2000, how much production did the US offshore to China? If this trend keeps going for a decade+, China might begin to approach US per-capita emissions.
- Hikikomori 6d agoTheir coal burning isn't going up though.
- tzs 5d agoIt is usage of plants that matters, not number of plants. Most of the new Chinese coal plants mostly have have low capacity factors. They are being built as backups and peakers rather than baseload, designed (or retrofitted in the case of existing plants being upgraded) to be able to cycle up and down to balance wind and solar. Many are idle so much that their owners have financial difficulty keeping them open, and the government has had to start paying them for their idle time so they won't go under. Many are also built to replace existing plants that cannot not yet be replaced with renewables, so are at worst neutral on coal usage and are usually actually more efficient than the old plants so there is a reduction.