"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.
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/
Jan Rosenow
Nicole Parsons