Comment on China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age

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• takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This moron doesn’t understand that green energy was a new sector where US could dominate for decades.

  A lot of countries are forced to import fossil fuels as they can’t produce their own so replacing that with local alternatives actually increases national security.

  Do people think China went into renewable energy because suddenly Xi became a tree hugger?

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  • WatDabney@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    From what I’ve gleaned of the ravings of the angry stupid right blogosphere, a lot of people actually do think that only tree huggers want green energy.

    And I have little doubt that that’s an opinion that Trump shares, but that’s not his main motivation in all of this. His main motivation is big fat bribes from the fossil fuel industry.

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    • kalkulat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      He’s not in a position to know (much, including) how many investors have put their money on green. A few months to put up a low/no-waste solar windmill farm (he hates how they look) and start profiting … 10 years (at least) to build a high-waste nuke.

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s the moment Sears let Amazon take the lead on mail order shopping just because Sears didn’t understand how the internet and shopping could work together.

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  • Wytch@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Doesn’t understand, also doesn’t care. Coal and oil paid for his loyalty.

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• Evono@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not only the US , Germany is also far behind

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  • AppleTea@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    don’t worry, you can start shutting down france’s nuclear generators once you run out of your own

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    • pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They are already shutting it down on their own due to recent heatwaves raising the temps of the water used to cool down their reactors

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      • rainwall@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Just use solar panels to power the ac to cool the water that makes the nuclear. Bonus points for floating solar arrays that cool the panels while shading the cooling water.

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      • Waryle@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Which is an ecological measure, not a technical one, and can be circumvented by existing technologies like cooling towers

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  • Skua@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Germany is worse than average for Europe, but it's far better than America and about on par with China. Per capita emissions are a little lower than China's, but China is a bit better if you look at consumption-based emissions instead

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  • chaosCruiser@futurology.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oh, but Germans can just buy their electricity from French nuclear plants.

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    • ServantOfRa@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Jellyfish; Hold my protozoa…

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• ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Don’t get my hopes up

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• devolution@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  More behind than an anal orgy.

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