Comment on China's secretive Sunway Pro CPU quadruples performance over its predecessor, allowing the supercomputer to hit exaflop speeds

• cyberpunk007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ah yes. And China still burns coal for power don’t they?

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  • BennyHill@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    China built more than the entire solar capacity of the united states in this year alone and got 25 nuclear power plants under construction. per capita CO2 emmisions in china have been lower than the US for a while now.

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    • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The thought of hundreds of Chinese nuclear power plants doesn’t fill my heart with confidence when even Japan can’t keep theirs from melting down.

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      • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Japan did have a bit of an earthquake and a tsunami to contend with.

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  • SeaJ@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They have made pretty good progress when it finds to renewable energy. But they also still use a fuck ton of coal. About 55% of their energy comes from coal. Better than 10 years ago when it was 70% but still way too much.

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    • zergtoshi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Can you please link sources?
      I’m interested in the total TWh of electric energy generated (now and then), because they may very well release more CO2 in total at 55% now compared to 70% 10 years ago.

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      • SeaJ@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Good point. I did not check that but I think it is somewhere in the source.

        ourworldindata.org/energy/country/china

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