That's a lightweight comment given multiple things can be true.
The claim you are responding to is contempory, "Right now China is", and concerns "its increasing energy demand" .. a response about total existing use twelve years past is no rebuttal.
and maybe recommend diving into the ongoing series of IEA global energy generation and consumption reports.
China's coal consumption is for a purpose, it has a projected wind down, and it represents not just the per capita coal consumption of China's people but also the coal consumption of the world that avails itself of China's solar panel and battery technology.
With a small amount of effort you can create a better comment.
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That's a lightweight comment given multiple things can be true.
The claim you are responding to is contempory, "Right now China is", and concerns "its increasing energy demand" .. a response about total existing use twelve years past is no rebuttal.
Rather than direct link to an untitled graph sans context (the June 2022 paper the twelve year 2013 elicited graph is snapshotted from) perhaps link to a time series graph: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/global-coal-c...
and maybe recommend diving into the ongoing series of IEA global energy generation and consumption reports.
China's coal consumption is for a purpose, it has a projected wind down, and it represents not just the per capita coal consumption of China's people but also the coal consumption of the world that avails itself of China's solar panel and battery technology.
With a small amount of effort you can create a better comment.