"If wind & solar were the answer, China would be building them at record speed." someone replied to my post on UK coal phase-out on X.
Good news: China IS building wind & solar capacity at record speed - almost 2/3 of world's utility-scale wind & solar under construction.
@Ardubal @janrosenow yep, china is building everything at record speed (and even coal, though i believe at much less record-setting speed, is being built).
At this point, if it’s a way to produce energy, they’ll build it, whatever it is.
Geopolitically wind and solar energy make a lot of good sense. Independence from continuous foreign exports of fuel, and largely decentralized energy generation. Not to speak of reduced health care costs from increased air and water quality.
@janrosenow It's difficult for those writing rubbish responses to understand that China is the number one emerging superpower. It can't be a superpower unless it invests in the way that it is doing. It has an idea to take over the world, and is implementing policies to achieve it.
Everyone else is living in la-la former colonial power land, now reduced to dust.
Hitler's war efforts were limited by access to oil suppliers.
China isn't making that mistake.
Independence from fossil fuels frees their foreign policy objectives from sanctions, oil embargos, and international finance based on oil revenues.
In comparison, America doesn't want to be freed of its fossil fuel overlords.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1942/06/russias-oil-and-hitlers-need/653693/
https://thundersaidenergy.com/2022/03/03/oil-and-war-ten-conclusions-from-wwii/
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