Coal? Your fired
China still has a lot of dommestic coal power plants, as of 2020 56.8% of China’s power was from coal, and the UK just recently re-opened one of our old ones to meet demand. so while this does curb the growth of coal power in places China invests with development projects, it’s by far not an ‘end’ to coal
stopping the growth of emissions is still good, especially as China invests in a lot of developing economies and so setting them up for more sustainable power grids long term as their economies develop is good. but China’s use of so much coal is still one of their major issues that thy have tried really hard to work on slowly, but is very much a massive problem
China still has a lot of dommestic coal power plants, as of 2020 56.8% of China’s power was from coal
Thing is, it was in the 70+% just 5 years ago and the vast majority of what replaced it proportionaly is renewables and neuclear. They could be doing even better of course but such a reduction for a developing country of a 1.4 billion people with constantly increasing energy demands is a big and important in and of itself
RadLibs / Ultras:
:le-pol-face: “How dare China not immediately blow up all of their coal plants, they clearly aren’t communist.”
Do you see anybody saying this ITT? Or do you just enjoy making yourself angry.
coal electricity share is in the mid 80s somewhere. you’re thinking of primary energy, which is just below 58 and decreasing. their primary energy greenness is on par with vietnam and better than all the western-centric countries in south-east asia. thing with measuring primary energy is that it shows an oversized oil share because when you electrify you cut of 2/3-5/6th of the total because electrification is more energy effective. so in practical terms a measure of the greenness of the economy is a figure somewhere between those
:xi-reactionary-spotted: :based-department:
South Africa’s plan to supply coal to everyone has been completely fucked. Gwede Mantashe, the energy minister who practically makes love to fossil fuels every night, was seen crying in the corner, repeatedly saying that “South Africa will never run out of coal” and “clean coal is a game changer” through the tears
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ass to ass?
