alt Hacker NewsI hope you realize that China's coal and oil use for electricity is at an all-time high and increasing. They have installed more coal capacity since 2020 than the US has total. US coal usage peaked circa 2000 and has decreased for the last 2 decades.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...
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New coal data is out just a few days ago [1], it's plateaued globally and expected to start to decline.
China's consumption this year was about the same as last, and looking to drop a bit, so likely old coal plants were being retired at about the same rate as newer ones were built, and that will start to go the other way (more retired than built).
1. https://www.iea.org/news/global-coal-demand-has-reached-a-pl...
Article is about US blocking energy from wind. You are (correctly) saying that China is increasing energy from coal and oil.
What is your point? Can you elaborate how this is relevant?
> They have installed more coal capacity since 2020 than the US has total
80% or more of new electricity generation in China is renewable. They build coal capacity but they don't use more of it.
This year their absolute carbon emissions decreased.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108292