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Re:China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear re... by dane-pgp on Monday November 08, 2021 @03:09PM (#29153622)
Here's a chart of carbon intensity vs. GDP per capita for various countries:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-intensity-vs-gdp

Why don't you slice and dice that based on your agenda and tell us what we should conclude?

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Re:China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear re... by jhgb on Monday November 08, 2021 @03:40PM (#29153931)
Uh...why not the proper comparison, which is GDP per kg CO2? While I believe that GDP is Θ(1) bound to CO2 emissions, any comparison should include those constants. Your chart is missing the connection between kWh consumed and GDP generated.
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Re:China to supercharge uranium race with 150 new nuclear re... by dane-pgp on Monday November 08, 2021 @04:25PM (#29154483)
> the connection between kWh consumed and GDP generated

If you don't mind those numbers being normalised by population size, and CO2 emissions being used as a more relevant metric than kWh, then this chart might be helpful:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capit...

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