China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7

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• dumnezero@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  show a coal chart too :/

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah I don’t think it’s useful to list GW capacities, as the country consumes and produces more power overall.

    A more useful metric would be the percentage of renewables in the national grid.

    Still, China is fairly impressive in that respect.

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    • houseofleft@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sharing this here as it’s exactly what you mention!

      ourworldindata.org/…/carbon-intensity-electricity

      CO2g per KWh is the standard metric for “how much a countries electricity pollutes”.

      Tldr China’s is 580 and improving. USA is 370 and improving at a similar rate (this obviously might change under the current administration).

      Others worth pointing too is Sweden (40gCO2) which is a good marker of what’s possible for a wealthy country and India (700gCO2) because as a country with a lot of economic development and recent historic poverty, it shows why China’s improvement is worth noting.

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• surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  LoL. “OP doesn’t support communism.”

  I’m sure capitalists will put the needs of the people first any day now. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence the communists are blowing past everyone else in renewables, and general quality of life.

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  • B312@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They have alot of renewables, don’t ask them about coal though.

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    • surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, they’ve had to use a lot of coal. They’re moving away from it. Did you not see the post you’re commenting on?

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  • communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    He said authoritarian communism, the problems with authoritarian communism aren’t economic, they’re related to having a surveillance/police state

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    • surph_ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure they edited that “authoritarian” in later. I also do not support China’s police state.

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• Allero@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Sad to see the tensions between groups inside Lemmy rose so bad that someone has to mention they are not pro-CCP when they say good about China.

  China is not ultimate good. China is not ultimate bad. Chinese government just does some good things and some bad things.

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  • Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The right wing Americans and Europeans have made their place on Lemmy. Anything china does it’s important they scream uguyrs or communism bad like that’s some sort of gotcha from children of (and sometimes literally active) colonisers

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    • piccolo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Lets be honest. China doesnt care if they cook the planet all the same. What matters is enegry independency.

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  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I used to tell people the proper response to this stuff would be for western industries to do the free enterprise thing and compete in this market. But the rebuttals always just devolved into prejudiced xenophobia instead of any genuine opinion or belief in green energy, infrastructure, or patriotism.

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• makingrain@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  China’s plans for taking control of Taiwan are falling into place.

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  • vonbaronhans@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    With renewable energy?

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    • MouthMouse@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Their panels will blot out the sun. Their hydro-electric dams shall dry up the seas. Their wind turbines will choke them of air. Even the ground beneath their very feet aren’t safe, as the geothermal power plants will freeze the land below them. Taiwan will be begging for them to switch back to coal by the time China is done with them.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They’re gonna stop the wind!

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    • makingrain@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Blockading the Malacca Strait isn’t a worry for China when domestic production and Russian inports fill the gap.All of this green energy helps tremendoualy for keeping the country ticking along during a time of war.

      Energy security for China is the real benefit here, it’a nothing to do with being environmental.

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• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Good on them.

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• ShortFuse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  How about per capita?

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