"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.

@janrosenow their energy needs are insatiable. they're also building (sometimes) illegal coal plants at a rate of knots. it's still a big problem.