Posted on 06/02/2022 6:35:33 AM PDT by FarCenter
Beijing (AFP) – China aims to double its wind and solar capacity by 2025, according to a new road map that also allows for more coal-fired power plants to bolster energy security.
The world's biggest polluter earlier estimated it needs to double wind and solar use by 2030 to deliver on its pledges under the Paris climate accord.
The latest plan -- if implemented -- means China might reach that goal earlier.
But Beijing has also ramped up reliance on coal-fired power plants in recent months to support its ailing economy as the Ukraine war pushes up global energy prices.
The country's central economic planner said 33 percent of power supply to the national grid will come from renewable sources by 2025, up from 29 percent in 2020, in a document released Wednesday.
"In 2025, the annual power generation from renewable energy will reach about 3.3 trillion kilowatt-hours... and the wind power and solar power generation will double," the plan said.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
China’s Climate Goals Hinge on a $440 Billion Nuclear Buildout
China is planning at least 150 new reactors in the next 15 years, more than the rest of the world has built in the past 35.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-02/china-climate-goals-hinge-on-440-billion-nuclear-power-plan-to-rival-u-s
They can put their windmills in Maryland. There is more than enough windy hot air blowing out of DC to power all of Shanghai.
doubling nothing is not a lot. But china does everything wrong. They will have a bunch of wind farms that don’t get too much wind. And don’t last too long. They do things for show. So expect to see old worn out wind mills all over china. They are only good at building crap and creating garbage piles.
So they’re gonna add a second windmill...
Ever been in the valley on the way out to Palm Springs? While it has been a while, there were plenty of non-working windmills when I was last there.
Chinese official #1: How can we increase our prestige in the world?
Chinese official #2: We could say we’re going to rely much more on green energy.
Chinese official #1: But that’s not true.
Chinese official #2: Who cares? Those idiots will believe anything. And we’ll just fake the data as we go along.
Both China and Russia are building new nuclear reactors and refurbishing old ones. Russia is likely to meet its targets due to its current and new nuclear reactors and reliance on hydropower.
Too bad we can’t have “crap” like China’s high speed rail system.
—24,000 miles of track (70% of the world’s capacity)
—2,500 high speed trains
—speeds over 200 miles per hour
—carries 2.4 billion (yes, billion) passengers a year
—serves virtually every major city in the country
Bonus: They don’t spend all their time figuring out ways to punish ethnic Chinese for being ethnic Chinese.
China has been talking about 150 new nuclear power plants for the last 15 years. They have simply not been able to build them. They do not have the experienced, trained personnel to run them especially in the areas that they would need to be situated. They do make a good effort with solar panels and turbines but they will continue to use whatever burns to generate electricity. They avidly buy at a discount whatever Russian oil, coal and gas that can reach them.
Exactly, China is not going to do anything but talk a good game, they are not that stupid, they are never going to jeopardize their economy by depending on unreliable energy sources, they will stick with coal and other fossil fuels and rapidly expand their nuclear energy capability.
German designed. I was on one. They replaced old train lines that did the same thing only much slower. Keep waiting. Those train lines will fail like everything else in china. Some have already. I do agree that those trains are cool. And if our airline industry allowed it, we would have them here. One reason we don’t is that every small town with an Amtrak station forces the train to stop. It makes Amtrak useless.
But you can think of airplanes like a virtual router. 10 years ago you had wires going through the office connected to a digital router. Now you have virtual networks and virtual routers and no wires. A high speed train system is a lot like wires. If things change you have a problem. Plus just think of a natural disaster or god forbid a war. Those tracks would not last the first week of a war.
The key point is that China said they were going to do something—and then they actually did it.
They did it without pushing perversion or “anti-racist” policies.
They just got it done.
That is what America used to be about....
China also does not have the FDA, property rights or even have to worry about eminent domain. IF the central government decides they are building a train track through “X” route. There is not discussion when they knock down the building you live in or the farm or the environmental impact.
You might want to take a look at the Chinese train system infrastructure.
Much of it is over vacant land—a lot of it is on upgrading existing tracks.
The US is a failed state and China is not.
That is the reality in 2022.
Sorry, I meant the EPA not FDA.
Yeah—EPA is an example of a federal agency that has helped to de-industrialize the country.
China does have pollution for sure—there is no free lunch.
Thats a standard that works in a command economy. That is a standard like Musks electric cars. Or the internet. A government controlled command economy can do that. They did not invent anything or improve anything. They just took a small idea and made it bigger. They solved many problems by just moving people, houses and businesses.
But what about the future. Those trains and tracks will degrade. All the systems associated with maintenance or safety will degrade. There will be increasing delays and crashes. The service will become poorer. The soviets had great trains too.
Efficiency is a concept that has to be considered. A command economy has efficiency in the beginning. They have design in the beginning. But they don’t have it in the long run. Safety will only be a concern if people hear about it. Maintenance will only be a concern when trains stop running and people hear about it. So people will not hear about it.
Big projects like the interstate system and the internet can be started by government but something has to happen afterwards to keep them up. The interstate is kept up by private business. I am in Wisconsin. Highway 94 is replaced every 5 years whether it needs it or not. Here is a clue, it rarely needs it. But powerful congressmen here are funded by construction companies. They pay for one thing. Thats a roads bill. And Paul Ryan became powerful by providing a Wisconsin roads bill for the same road for twenty years. China will not have that. They will have crashes and people will go to jail if they moan over them.
They are not hampered by anti-Chinese racism or other Woke craziness.
That is a huge advantage—and gives them room to make a lot of mistakes and still overcome them.
In the US every challenge is multiplied tenfold by bad government policies.
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