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- Comment on China’s Use of Fossil Fuels Is Falling While Power Demand Is Surging 1 week ago:
That doesn’t mean China’s gone completely renewable. It’s still the biggest greenhouse-gas emitter and continues building thermal plants that burn fossil fuels.
Yet even after a sweltering July, thermal generation is down this year in what may be the start of a long-term decline in air pollution.
The U.S. / China tariff war began in January of this year. I wonder how much a reduction in production has played a role in those numbers.
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- Comment on Clean energy workers are desperately needed, but many don't know these jobs exist 10 months ago:
Clean energy infrastructure is desperately needed, but capitalists don’t want to pay labor a fair wage.
The stories I hear from tradespeople in clean energy work is that entry level positions are paying less, and the bonuses they were seeing when they started are drying up. Many are looking to move away from clean-energy specific labor and into electrical or construction where unions are better established.
Improperly installed solar panels short out and fail early, carelessly sealed roof mountings leak and damage the dwelling, and most importantly, pressured novice workers make often fatal mistakes while working with electricity or at significant heights. If you have the experience of prison labor as a baseline, the risks and rewards of this kind of labor may be attractive. But most tradespeople know these jobs exist, and choose not to take them.
Instead of support for labor, you see state, provincial, and national incentives to recruit new workers into these fields, as well as articles like this one touting the potential of employment in the clean energy economy. But noticeably absent from the article is any mention of labor organization or workers protections for the people doing this work. If the state was serious about building this infrastructure, they would make these fields union jobs. That’s the only way to get quality renewable energy infrastructure built at scale.
