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China is building two coal plants per week. And their "green" programs are just facades to take Western money.
Yep, taking Western money by Chinese companies buying Chinese renewable energy equipment and paying Chinese installers. Taking western money by building out renewable energy faster than the rest of the world combined, in their own country using their own companies with their own finances
I'm talking about stuff like this
https://youtu.be/JEN2LQoN-hE
https://youtu.be/aU_S97Ae1eg
China added more coal power in 2023 than the rest of the world combined.
And more renewable energy. And more high speed rail. And has over 90% of the worlds BEV buses.
There’s some truth to Chinas claim that they’re still a developing country and they need to massively build out to bring more of their population up to developed standards.
There’s also some truth to the claim that central planning without regard to supply and demand means they seem to be building out more power than they can use. Hopefully that translates into coal power plants going unused
You sound like a wumoa. These are literally CPP propaganda talking points. Especially the high-speed rail line.
What does "high speed rail" and "BEV buses" have to do with the discussion about renewable energy? Nothing. It's just thrown in to say "China good, West bad".
I don’t know what that is so can’t be offended, but don’t be blinded by the lies rolling agenda that any country is bad: even the worst regimes sometimes do good things
Everything. Renewable energy is not just renewable electricity generation but applying it to more energy users. A Deisel bus is a dirty polluter that can’t use renewable energy, but a battery electric bus is a way to use renewable energy for transportation.
One of the fundamental requirements of more renewable energy is “electrify everything”. Electricity becomes the distribution medium letting us use renewable energy for more things
A wumao referees to someone who is a paid shill for the CCP, they get paid 50¢ per comment they make.
Sure, that's a valid point. But it becomes entirely invalidated when you consider that most of that electrification comes from coal plants they're building at breakneck pace. They're averaging two entire coal power plants per week. That's over 100 coal fired power plants per year. They are building more than ALL other countries combined.
Then there's the consideration that your argument only applies to the very few places they can actually do that, like in major urban cities. Everywhere else in the country they still have to rely on ICE transport out of practicality.
And this also ignores that their renewable initiatives (outside of EVs) are giant shams.
https://www.dw.com/en/how-a-chinese-firm-ran-a-billion-euro-carbon-credit-scam/a-71010148
https://freedium.cfd/https://medium.com/@lanekwriter/the-grass-is-greener-in-china-f835368ae8c
Edit: autocorrect
Just like the people using this as reason US can’t electrify transportation, the real answer is this is irrelevant.
Feel free to look up what country most of the world’s solar panels are produced in. Feel free to look up what country has the most high speed rail miles. Feel free to look up what country created the world’s biggest hydroelectric project. Feel free to look up which countries are leveling off carbon emissions ahead of commitments
It’s a shit country with no human rights, but their leadership does seem to understand the need for renewable energy and reduced carbon, much more than my country’s leadership does
Irrelevant. The fact that they are manufactured there does not equate to them being used there.
Also irrelevant. Most of Europe uses electrified rail.
Not a good argument. The ecological damage caused by monolithic damn projects is massive. While they are "renewable" once brought online, they aren't a good overall option. Smaller damns that do not disrupt the natural flow of a body of water is the modern preferred method.
It sure isn't China. That was literally the topic of one of the links I shared. They've been lying about their carbon credits. And they've been building TWO COAL POWER PLANTS PER WEEK FOR YEARS!
I've said that a few times to the point I'm getting suspicious...
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One on faking a facade to look greener than they are and one on scamming a foreign country on that country’s carbon market. I see nothing like you claim.