Comment on China Is The World's First Electrostate - CleanTechnica
sj_zero 1 week ago
China still burns more coal every year than every single other country on earth put together.
This matters a lot, because it doesn't matter that you're "using electricity" if it's coming from a big ol' coal pollution factory.
In some ways, it's preferable to directly use the coal in some applications -- changing from chemical energy to thermal to movement to electricity back to thermal energy can be less efficient than just changing the chemical energy to thermal energy and using that directly.
China still burns more coal every year than every single other country on earth put together.
They also release the most polluted nuclear waste water into the ocean. They had one propaganda campaign where they were condemning the release of Fukushima waste water by Japan, even though there are 10 Chinese nuclear plants that each release around 3 times as much pollution.
Heatpumps produce 3-5 times more heat then the electricity put into them. EVs are about as bad as a n ice car, even when run on coal electricity. Also we know how to replace coal based electricity.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 week ago
This used to be true, but it’s out of date now. China, like it or not idk, is outpacing us, and is turning off more coal by the day.