Comment on Why doesn't the capitalist economy invest in cheap renewable energy?
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 4 days ago
I get it but even with all these drawbacks we’re doing pretty good, I’d like to see China and India have their lines start going back the other way
Also he didn’t mention much about batteries, which are fantastic for arbing cheap solar during the day and expensive power at night
China makes more renewables than the rest of the world.
Look at completed and under construction. Wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, pumped hydro.
50% car sales are EVs.
10% of GDP is clean tec.
A large part of emission growth is rapid increases of the petrochemical industry. That’s not going to last long.
The energy demand increase is almost entirely being met by renewables and increasing. Its going to drop very fast.
Its going to drop very fast.
Yes that’s what I’d like to see
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 3 days ago
What to consider for China is, that it exports a shit ton of products into other countries. What this means is, that emissions that should be advocated to the EU or US are being emitted in China, which is part of the reason why it has such high emissions.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 3 days ago
That’s really cool that you’re producing so much stuff, but I don’t give a shit, I don’t care if you’re the #1 maker of carbonated dildos, and the US and EU have no market for building those things, it means nothing to me being #1 in renewables and yet having co2 emissions go up, it means that even though you’re producing a lot of renewables you’re still sucking compared to the USA and EU when it comes down to the cold hard facts, you’re not reducing your co2 output
reuters.com/…/chinas-2024-coal-power-construction…