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Posted on 03/12/2026 3:52:03 AM PDT by dennisw
China remains the world’s top coal consumer, with fossil fuels supplying over 87% of its primary energy.
Renewables’ share was 40% in 1971 when China was poor, but plummeted to 7.5% in 2011 — and has risen slowly over the next 13 years, to just over 10% in 2024.
On this trajectory, a full transition to green energy would take four centuries.
So while the vision of China as a renewable superpower is mostly eco-propaganda, we should heed two lessons from Beijing’s energy policies.
First, China has dramatically scaled up energy use — and has grown rich in the process.
The West, especially Europe, should abandon its self-imposed energy restrictions and follow suit.
Consider fracking: Heavily restricted or banned across Europe and in many US states, it has helped boost Chinese shale gas output by roughly 20% a year since 2017, putting China on track to become the world’s third-largest gas producer — and making it more resilient than other Asian economies amid price spikes from the Iran war.
Many in the West gaze in awe at China’s apparent dominance in green energy.
“China is becoming a green superpower,” read a BBC headline last month.
“China’s Green Triumph,” trumpeted The New York Times.
China is indeed churning out solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles and batteries that flood global markets — proof, advocates say, of an inevitable green transition.
Yet these supposed marvels are forged amid overwhelming and surging use of fossil fuels, particularly coal.
Its real energy achievements — dramatic energy ramp-ups to fuel prosperity, and advances in nuclear power — remain overlooked.
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All our coal plants have the best avaiaible scrubbing technology. Same for Germany. We even scrub out mercury emmissions. China coal plants are mixed. The old ones are pathetic at scrubbing. The new Chinese ones are better but still fall short at scrubbing out toxic mercury.
Bring the world down where it can’t build itself up.
China is one of the most polluted countries on the planet.
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It takes huge amounts of energy to make “green” energy.
Studies has shown that solar cells barely return the energy to make them, ship, install and dispose them.
That why all green energy manufacturing moved to China!
Only China has lots of cheap coal energy available to make the “green” stuff!
Now imagine all the processed food and medicine coming from there.
Why would China play into the Carbon scam? They are already Communist!
Bjorn Lomborg and his books have been wildly attacked as having “bad data”, poor methodology etc.
There’s just too much money (trillions) rooting for Net Zero, Climate Hysteria, and oh yeah, the neutering of Western Nations’ energy, defence, health, and sovereignty.
Looking at you Soros, WEF, Davos creeps.
surprised this article was not labeled hate-speech by Euro-Stapo.
Forgot Neville Roy Singham.
He’s a modern day Joker, with more money and no Batman.
China -- as a business -- is engaged in selling green unicorns to all the Western "believers" in green unicorns, while not believing themselves, because they know practically it's BS. Like "net zero" -- a piece of idiotic propaganda pushed by idiots, and so many similar unicorns. Taking advantage of the gullible? Sure. Like Democrats here and Leftists in Europe, all for their own personal gain in the end. Snake oil is snake oil is snake oil. And when some fool wants another bottle of it, China will sell it. So many snake oil salesmen, when one takes a survey.....
China’s ultimate goal is energy independence. The present war on Iran shows exactly why they want to do it.
Yes, it includes “renewables” (which they produce themselves) and LOTS of home-made coal.
They also know that a nation can NOT have an advanced and wealthy economy without energy expenditure
I wish our own leaders had the same focus.
Serious environmentalists are pro-nuclear. Well, most of them.
The other serious environmentalists, who do indeed remain anti-nuclear, are the deep green ecologists who want to see a 90 percent plus reduction in human populations and a retreat from industrial civilization.
When I encounter such people, I begin by agreeing with them ... but only on the condition that they agree to let me select which 90 percent we eliminate and which ten percent we keep.
I hasten to add that I’d do it humanely. I’m old enough to have learned patience. Just sterilize those who don’t make the cut, make them comfortable, and wait for nature to take its course.
We need to be selective in who we keep, because we want a lot of smart and capable people to sustain things like painless dentistry, air conditioning, water and sewage treatment systems, antibiotics, agricultural abundance and a logistics system that gives me fresh fruits and vegetables year around, because I refuse to return to canned asparagus.
The big question is whether a properly designed, eugenics based, limited population society would retain any roles for people with IQs below 100, or 110, or 120? I don’t know where to set the bar.
Really bright people can get terribly stovepiped if they get too lost in their own minds. It’s healthy for the smart kids to know how to do their share of physical work when needed. But they also tend to have a low tolerance for boredom (lawyers and accountants may be the exception) and we don’t want to trap people in roles that make them miserable.
It gets tricky if you actually try to sit down and think it through — as science fiction writers and utopian theorists sometimes try to do. How, actually, would you make such a society work? How many hours a week does Einstein have to put in digging ditches or butchering animals in the slaughterhouses?
Confirms Trump’s verdict on China—they build lots of solar panels and wind turbines to sell to stupid people, but run their own economy on coal.
Most of their renewable energy probably comes from Hydro
To take us down.
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