I wouldn’t call it undermining

Really? You don’t think building 500 coal power plants is undermining their clean energy goals? What would it take? 1000 coal power plants?

China adding coal capacity while scaling renewables is not evidence of hypocrisy. It’s evidence of a system trying to meet rising demand and stabilize a grid during rapid buildout. Both things can be true at once without one cancelling the other.

You don’t think other countries are also trying to meet rising demand and stabilise their grids? I think Germany might like a word and last I saw they weren’t building 500 new coal power plants

You think right wing people think? Brrruhhhhh…

I wouldn’t be talking shit about anyone, you just gave China (the current number 1 highest co2 emitter in the world by far) a free ride to pollute as much as possible while giving the USA shit for ‘regressing’ despite the fact the USA isn’t even doing half the co2 output China is

I guess the USA can regress another few million tons of co2 a day since it’s trying to meet rising demand and stabilise its grid

China is at least progressing nicely. While America regresses.

China is doing an amazing job on the renewables front no doubt

But they are also doing a fantastic job installing new coal power plants

A “resurgence” in construction of new coal-fired power plants in China is “undermining the country’s clean-energy progress”, says a new joint report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and Global Energy Monitor (GEM).

https://www.carbonbrief.org/chinas-construction-of-new-coal-power-plants-reached-10-year-high-in-2024/

https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-just-15-countries-account-for-98-of-new-coal-power-development/

This is something they are choosing to do willingly, knowing they are the highest polluting country in the world by far

I also think the American regress is overstated

We are still seeing records broken on the regular: https://reneweconomy.com.au/grid-batteries-reach-stunning-new-peak-of-44-pct-of-evening-demand-in-worlds-fourth-biggest-economy/

A big part of this is because right wing people think renewables are economically bad and ideologically motivated, whereas in reality they are economically sound and the right wingers are the ones who are driven by ideology

You one of those what if’ers, eh?

The opposite, I live in reality, remember the planet doesn’t care about per capita, only actual output ;)

The planet can sustain 10x more people if they live like people in India vs Saudi Arabia or UAE…

According to this: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/india-population/

The current Indian population is: 1,473,793,835

If India had the population of Saudi Arabia or the UAE we could all live like Saudi Arabia or the UAE

If China had the population of Saudi Arabia or the UAE we wouldn’t even be discussing climate change right now

right but whether they like it or not they are within the governance of Australia and thus are covered by the policy direction of the government of Australia, elected democratically by the people of Australia, to continue the culture and work ethic and the desires of the people within the country and the laws and trade deals we have with other countries

sorry you’re typing words but it’s super confusing

why are we declaring every australian is a separate country?

I don’t think he’s looking for advice, just looks like he made himself a bot?

Now when both countries trade, the Green country imports emissions and the Black ones are lowered

Yeah I’m saying it’s the opposite, the green country is outsourcing dirty work to the dirty country

I didn’t downvote you btw

Countries defined by arbitrary lines are just that

What

If it wasn’t per capita, we’d just be looking at population size graphs

I duno about that, largest countries in the world including EU:

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?time=1998..2024&country=CHN~USA~IND~European+Union+(28)~IDN~PAK~NGA&hideControls=false&Gas+or+Warming=CO₂&Accounting=Territorial&Fuel+or+Land+Use+Change=All+fossil+emissions&Count=Per+country

Some of chinas emissions are really other countries emissions, offshored for China to produce. China profits from it, of course.

Agreed, I’ve complained about Europes false green economy when it outsources manufacturing to China, including but not limited to

China was by far the largest supplier of solar panels, accounting for 98% of all imports

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20251009-2

For a population as large as Europe it’s disappointing their aren’t more battery and solar panel manufacturers

this is why i hate per capita, Australia is listed 3rd and India last despite Australia’s co2 emissions going down and India’s increasing by over 5 Australia’s in the last 20 years

Planet doesn’t care about per capita

we have sunscreen now, also no one says you have to stand under direct sunlight the whole time 😁

me_irl

most likely my next phone, i think going all the way to eos might be too far as im pretty sure my banking apps won’t work

https://www.fairphone.com/the-fairphone-gen-6-e-operating-system

but i might buy the regular fairphone and donate to Murena so they can keep up the fight

Oh don’t get me wrong it’s a clusterfuck, LG have been an absolute disaster with batteries:

The car has all-wheel drive via two motors powered by a 90 kWh LG Chem liquid cooled lithium-ion battery

They also have a home battery recall here in Australia:

https://www.productsafety.gov.au/recalls/ess-home-energy-storage-system-batteries

This safety recall was extended in August 2021 to include additional affected models.

That’s interesting

More than 26,000 vehicles in the UK up to the end of the 2021 model year are thought to be affected.

I wonder if it’s the same underlying issue on both that LG messed up badly

“My car was devalued from £32,000 to now about £7,000… Nobody would buy this car if I tried to sell it tomorrow, because you can only charge it to 90 per cent.

I don’t think that’s an issue, it had 446KM range new, so even at 80% it’s still well over 300KM of range

Just need to make sure the app or setting in the car is set to make sure it cuts off at 90%

ESA vs NASA budgets:

ESA (2026): €8.26 billion (~$9.7 billion USD)

NASA (2026): $24.4 billion USD

😔

I was like why? What’s that got to do with anything? But it’s America

pretty good article, liked it

ncd has devolved and been quashed down into lemmy’s every sub is anti-america/trump memes now as well right?

the problem is that the returns on renewables are lower than fossil fuels, as they can’t exploit us as much the share holders said to go back to oil and gas

i don’t really care about any legacy energy provider so this means nothing to me, they’ll be disrupted soon enough