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Re:4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment by buckle8017 on Thursday July 10, 2025 @04:56AM (#44518853)
China builds solar panels using electricity produced by burning coal.

China is by far the world largest producer of green house gases.

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Re:4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment by pshirshov on Thursday July 10, 2025 @08:17AM (#44520151)
> China builds solar panels using electricity produced by burning coal.

Source? From everything I can find, at this moment China has around half of the generation coming from clean/renewable sources.

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Re:4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment by mrspuratic on Thursday July 10, 2025 @06:28AM (#44519391)
Per-country yes China is #1, but per-capita, oil producing countries are most of the top 10 (with island nation Palau #1, inefficient transport skewed by low population).
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Re:4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment by pjc50 on Thursday July 10, 2025 @06:48AM (#44519514)
China is also one of the top two countries by population. The other is India, at almost exactly the same number of 1.4bn.
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Re:4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment by kukkukb on Thursday July 10, 2025 @06:06AM (#44519281)
Surely, at some point in the near future, they'll be producing solar panels using solar energy?
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Re:4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment by marcosdumay on Thursday July 10, 2025 @12:18PM (#44522659)
Well, in some 2 years their solar production trend will reach their electricity consumption trend...

So either that or they'll deploy electric-arc sculptures all over the country for the population to see, listen, and smell.

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Re:4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment by chopin on Thursday July 10, 2025 @05:37AM (#44519090)
For goods we consume, though.
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