Comment on A new study found adaptive traffic signals powered by big data reduced peak-hour travel times by 11% in China’s 100 most congested cities – saving 31.73 million tonnes of CO₂ annually.

• Bloomcole@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes, and they are by far the best in green energy
  carbonbrief.org/analysis-record-surge-of-clean-en… And it would be even worse for the US and others if they would produce all the stuff they out now outsource to China.
  It’s a typical Chinophobe ‘at what cost’ commenter.
  There is literally nothing they can do right.

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• mineralfellow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  China has a very large capita.

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  • AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What’s your solution to that

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s not that there should be a solution per se, more that it impacts their emissions per capita. When person density goes up average per person emissions go down, simple as.

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    • realitista@lemm.ee ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      China already “solved” it with the one child policy. They will have the most massive population decline ever in the coming decades. It will probably destroy their economy.

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• HereIAm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  One issue with that is China is still a heavily bike and moped driven country. The issue is when more of their population is able to afford cars. So they could still “catch up”.

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