Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people)

DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They‘ll keep building more coal power plants in the global south and export coal. There‘s a lot of money to be made.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re also actually still building more coal power in mainland China.

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• Mihies@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yep, solar is awesome when you have coal and gas power plants, not so much when you have nuclear ones.

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  • ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How idiotic.

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    • Mihies@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do explain, I’m all ears.

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      • SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think they don’t get that your comment is fighting the same fight by being pro solar & anti coal/gas, with the only difference being that your comment is also pro nuclear power.

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      • ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No. I type less.

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  • FishFace@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Solar and nuclear work just fine together. Nuclear is expensive (and most cost effective if kept running all the time, rather than switched on and off) but it reduces the cost of solar (lower proportion of solar means you don’t need as much storage) and hedges against bad weather.

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    • Mihies@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can’t just switch it off and on. It runs at more or less full power all the time. So tell me, at what power is that taking into consideration that sun doesn’t shine during night + mornings and evenings when days are short or cloudy?

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      • FishFace@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t understand what you’re asking, sorry.

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  • tostiman@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Huh? No

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  • catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    ???

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• Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They are going to keep those coal plants as back up but the amount they use then is decreasing.

  At the same time they are rapidly moving transport into electricity and they are growing their electrical demand.

  This year should be the tipping point where coal and oil usage drops. Capacity and number of coal is meaningless.

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