Re:China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal
by berdario on Sunday August 11, 2024 @11:58PM
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You're responding in a thread in which people are discounting the "actions", because "the Communist Party doesn't really want to decrease CO2"
I demonstrated that their words match their actions (ecology and energy policy wise)
Re:China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal
by AnthonyMouse on Monday August 12, 2024 @01:50AM
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They don't though. If they cared about CO2 then the amount of CO2 they emit would be decreasing over time, because that would be their priority over e.g. rapid growth or cost considerations. If they wanted to they could be shutting down coal plants and replacing them with solar or nuclear instead of building new coal burners in addition to solar, but they're not.
Re:China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal
by ZeroGravitas on Monday August 12, 2024 @05:54AM
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It is decreasing though.
It's hard to put a precise date on it but some think it happened in 2023, some 2024, the official goal is peaking by 2030 (note they've hit other renewables goals by about 7 years) but generally it's agreed that it's flattened and about to decline, if it hasn't already, due to rapid renewable rollout.
Re:China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal
by AnthonyMouse on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @04:35AM
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> It is decreasing though.
"The rate of increase is lower" is not the same as decreasing.
Re:China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal
by berdario on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @08:07PM
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You should bother reading what you're replying to, because emissions are in fact decreasing... It's not simply the rate of increase
Will that be sustained? We'll soon see, but let's not be ignorant of the progress being made
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Socialist_Values
Fortunately, unlikely democracy and the rule of law, the CCP appears to actually care about cheap energy and rolling back obvious pollution in major cities.