Posted on 12/28/2021 11:32:50 PM PST by blueplum
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China, under fire for approving new coal power stations as other countries try to curb greenhouse gases, has completed the first 1,000-megawatt unit of the Shanghaimiao plant, the biggest of its kind under construction in the country.
Its operator, the Guodian Power Shanghaimiao Corporation, a subsidiary of the central government-run China Energy Investment Corporation, said on Tuesday that the plant's technology was the world's most efficient, with the lowest rates of coal and water consumption....
...China is responsible for more than half of global coal-fired power generation and is expected to see a 9% year-on-year increase in 2021, an International Energy Agency report published this month said.
Beijing has pledged to start reducing coal consumption, but will do so only after 2025...
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The Communists in Beijing don’t give a rat’s ass about the neuroses of Western liberals. They are doing what’s best for them. It’s something we used to do for ourselves.
it’s much easier to reduce consumption if consumption is very high to begin with.
and I’ll bet the agreement is something stupid like 1-2 pounds a year.
John Kerry is verry verry upset about this.
One might say that China, India and other (serious) developing nations have been Swift Boating Lurch since the day he got the Fake Climate Czar role!! And Lurch knows a thing or two about Swift Boating.
John Kerry?
Say, now...
You’ve got my remembery cranking up, here...
John Kerry. Wasn’t he in Viet Nam?
It's been increasing around 9% every year for the past 20 years in lockstep with GDP growth, and is expected to keep increasing at that rate for the next 20. Coal consumption in China doubles every 10 years. A 9% increase in 2021? The envy-mentalists are crying over spilled milk.
They play our idiotic “President Biden” like a drum. We scale back our energy production, try to bandage it with releasing some emergency reserves, and continue with the religion of windmills and electric cars while our opponents laugh and use real fuel. Our inflation soars and we lock down our economy and print more cash to put in circulation and “stimulus” while offloading manufacturing again to the damn Chinese.
They need all that energy to make us the “renewable” energy sources.
Without coal burned in China, we could not cut our Co2 emissions!
DITTO!
Exactly right...
China is bringing a new coal fired power plant at the rate of one per week. China has huge amounts of coal. So, don’t expect them to give up this cheap resource any time soon. Btw, approximately half of the coal mines in China are on fire. Some have been burning for over a century and once the fire becomes embedded in the coal vein it’s almost impossible to put out. Just a side note, there’s one in Australia that’s been burning longer than can be recorded.
Three months in ‘Nam.
Three Purple Hearts...
Hu Ni Ba Xir don’t care.
I guess it’s unreasonable to ask Leftists what the point is of sending the West back to the stone age while China now has more coal plants than the rest of the world, combined.
I don’t think “green” energy will be enough for an “instant” conversion, but I support technological advancement. It is getting more efficient. New windmills can generate much more electricity with far smaller wind farms.
In addition, while China is more pragmatic about it, they too are rushing forward with renewables. China is #1 in windmill farm installation and electric vehicle production. There of the ten largest wind turbine manufacturers are Chinese. China also has several of the largest electric vehicle manufacturers and Chinese consumers are buying them at increasing rates.
The good news is that in 2020, GE was the world’s largest manufacturer of wind turbines. Denmark’s Vestas was #2. Both GE and Vestas manufacture in the US most of the wind turbines they install here. Vestas has 3 major plants in Colorado. GE makes turbines in Grand Forks, ND and Pensacola, FL.
Furthermore, Tesla is now the world’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer, and the overwhelming majority of electric vehicles sold in the US have US produced batteries.
I’m not a green fanatic and I don’t support forced change, but I want to keep up technologically.
Not true. See post #16.
Disagree respectfully, almost all the solar cells are made in China, using coal as the energy needed, and Uighur slave workers.
Solar cells need a lot of energy, so much that they barrenly break even in the energy budget. Very little net energy there!
Only Greta can go to China./Star Trek sorta
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