• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Record low share but still record high(ish) quantity.

    Even with everything China is impressively doing its not fast enough to keep up with current power demand growth (hopefully just short-term, decades).

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      3 months ago

      So is coal power production going down, or are renewables growing faster?

      Edit: looks like they’re still adding coal capacity

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        3 months ago

        Yes, that edit.

        Im not trying to be hard on renewables at all, just that in terms of greenhouse gases we are still dumping more and more of them into the air. Just the growth of our carbon farts is a bit slower.

        The power demand growth is insane, and the cost might be too high.

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        3 months ago

        IIRC China does not yet see an easy way to solve the whole “in the winter the sun shines less” problem… So here we are.

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        3 months ago

        Yes, def (tho recent beef & pork ghg emissions have actually closed the gap considerably). Murikan boomers lived reckless lives on account of (global) future generations in so many ways.

        I was merely pointing out the scales, how giant absolute numbers both in actual emissions & actual growth we are talking about.