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Re:China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal by pixl97 on Sunday August 11, 2024 @08:12PM (#41220158)
Ya and they have 1.2 billion people they are bringing out of poverty while becoming the manufacturing hub of the world. They do realize they need massive amounts of power to keep up the growth. They also realize pollution is a huge problem and that they can't continue to burn coal supplies at their current rate forever.
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Re:China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal by Qwertious on Sunday August 11, 2024 @09:10PM (#41220397)
>and their growth has declined to below 5% this year.

So they're still growing, then.

And presumably southern China is still tropical and in desperate need of air conditioning in summer. In fact it's getting worse due to climate change.

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Re:China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal by seanmcdirmid on Sunday August 11, 2024 @10:08PM (#41220640)
They also need heat in the winter. I’ve never been so cold in my life actually, people really take indoor heating for granted.
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Re:China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal by alwa on Sunday August 11, 2024 @08:46PM (#41220292)
Because rural or urban, once people have access to enough energy to rise out of grinding poverty, they tend not to want to return to a precarious, labor-intensive subsistence lifestyle.

Especially when their individual share of the resulting pollution is small compared to the degree to which it’s improved their lives.

“Declined” growth of 5% this year still means that things there are 5% bigger than they were last year.

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Re:China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal by Aeolun on Sunday August 11, 2024 @08:46PM (#41220298)
Are you suggesting they’re polluting for the hell of it?
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Re:China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal by fred_is_fred on Sunday August 11, 2024 @11:48PM (#41221023)
1.2 billion and falling. For not the change in standard of living pushes consumption net positive, but I wonder about in 20 years or 30?
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Re:China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal by Dylan16807 on Monday August 12, 2024 @12:46AM (#41221232)
They're within a tenth of a percent of peak population. It might fall a meaningful amount over time, it might not.
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