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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]China has been very successful in their transition to renewables - especially solar. That's the largest economy in the world and is built on making things.

We could power the entire country with solar and wind if it weren't for the dinosaurs in the GOP who are fixated on expensive and dirty coal. Throw in nuclear, and we are all set when it comes to non-carbon energy.

Carbon-free domestic energy is there for the taking, if only we had the political will. [/quote]

China also brings an additional, brand new, coal fired power plant on line about every 10 days, too. Almost 38 new coal plants annually. They’re both the world’s largest domestic producer AND importer of coal. [/quote]

They are moving away from coal. Their new coal plants are not for baseload. They are high efficiency coal plants that will be run 10-20% of the time to handle peaks. China has already hit peak oil demand because of the EV. There has been a big drop off in permitting for new coal plants in China. India and China are both building coal plants but have moved to solar. Lots of the residential electricity is being filled by solar and battery in India. Huge growth market. Everything has changed in the past 3 years but it takes a while for this to show up in building electrical plants.

Interesting if china generated all its electricity from coal(which it does not) but continues its EV growth in 3 years China would reduce its carbon emissions. This is because electric power is 90-95% efficient. While fossil fuel is at best 24-30% efficient. Every EV reduce carbon emissions Vs gas cars by 70% and oils demand by 3 to 1. So the emissions reduction would come from transportation.

China is build Talatan Solar Park. When fully built out it will produce 8 gw. This is the equivalent of 4-8 coal plants. [/quote]

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