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Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by dzonga on Thursday January 15, 2026 @07:52AM (#46631717)
it seems us is fighting yesterday's war

wars / empires etc are built on mastering an energy source

the Brits on Coal

the US rose on Oil

China is rising on renewables

my worry is can renewables be quickly brought online to power industry / power hungry Data Centers etc at a reasonable cost

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Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by margalabargala on Thursday January 15, 2026 @08:29AM (#46632216)
> my worry is can renewables be quickly brought online to power industry / power hungry Data Centers etc at a reasonable cost

I mean, clearly the answer is yes. The problem is political, not economic.

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Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by zingar on Friday January 16, 2026 @02:18AM (#46643909)
Could you spell out the “clearly yes” part of this? I’d love it to be true but even more than that I’d like to have an answer to the climate sceptics.
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Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by margalabargala on Friday January 16, 2026 @09:25AM (#46646644)
We're commenting on an article that discusses how quickly and cheaply large scale renewables can be brought online.
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Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by kiba on Thursday January 15, 2026 @08:35AM (#46632301)
Everyone's rising on renewables. Renewable energy is just a victim of a heavily polarizing political atmosphere.
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Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by tim333 on Thursday January 15, 2026 @09:45AM (#46633232)
China did most of its rising on fossil fuels. I think they are fairly pragmatic as to what to use.
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Re:Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and... by detritus on Thursday January 15, 2026 @04:50PM (#46639841)
But now their ascendance will be largely built on renewables which, due to our ineptitude here in the west, we've handed them the ball.

Good luck to them, because someone has to.

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