• kristina [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      nb4 they blame cina for having high carbon production recently while the all time carbon production is dwarfed by the west while doing green tech embargoes on countries like cina

      • panopticon [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Also people like to blame China for commissioning all these new coal plants. But this is a matter of expanding installed capacity.

        The overall generation of coal power in China has been steadily declining, while renewable power generation has been steadily increasing to replace it. The transition can't happen overnight.

        • kristina [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          also theyre looking to get 2-3x the number of reactors, theyre gonna dwarf the rest of the world in reactor output, and the new nuclear sites are gonna be shiny latest gen shit with all the safety bells and whistles :posadist-nuke:

          https://world-nuclear-news.org/BlankSiteASPX/media/WNNImported/mainimagelibrary/general%20and%20abstract/IEA-slide.jpg?ext=.jpg (note: this slide is a conservative estimate, some think china will hit 200gw by 2030-2035). and then they intend to get it going even higher from there. their current plan is around ~1400 GW by 2100 on top of what is already put in, which would be outputting about half the USA's current output in nuclear only.

          china has enough clean energy to power the US for half the year. but it needs to get higher, obviously.