EVs and heat pumps on a half coal grid are better than directly fossil fueled. Especially because you can continue the expansion of low carbon power that has recently taken them below 50% coal fired electricity.
China has been heavily investing in environmental testing these past couple decades; they've bought more testing equipment than all of europe (admittedly this is only in the small slice of the market that my industry has visibility into). The US generates more revenue, but that's only because the US is charged more money.
If they're investing this much into testing, they must also be investing in remediation as well. It's not new tech that's been invented either - just look at smog in LA. We didn't suddenly drive less over the years; we simply made cars and factories less polluting. The same can be done for coal. Capture the sulfur compounds, catalytic converters for NOx, etc.
sure china burns so much coal, comparativly, because they helped everybody get solarised, and have taken on a huge huge amount of energy intensive manufacturing that gets exported, while adding massive amounts of pv, wind , and hydro power and reducing there own internal share of coal.
The full picture is very complicated with a lot of moving pieces, one of the biggest is that currently China is burning coal in order to protect it's oil reserves while the west wages war on Chinas two biggest suppliers of energy, and sanctions chinese intrests for buying energy on what THEY consider, the open market.
Huh? Weren't they also the leaders in reforestation, solar energy... all that feel good green stuff? I'm experiencing cognitive dissonance of the highest order.
EVs and heat pumps on a half coal grid are better than directly fossil fueled. Especially because you can continue the expansion of low carbon power that has recently taken them below 50% coal fired electricity.
Yet you can breath in Beijing in Winter. Where did it move to? Beter filtering?
China has been heavily investing in environmental testing these past couple decades; they've bought more testing equipment than all of europe (admittedly this is only in the small slice of the market that my industry has visibility into). The US generates more revenue, but that's only because the US is charged more money.
If they're investing this much into testing, they must also be investing in remediation as well. It's not new tech that's been invented either - just look at smog in LA. We didn't suddenly drive less over the years; we simply made cars and factories less polluting. The same can be done for coal. Capture the sulfur compounds, catalytic converters for NOx, etc.
sure china burns so much coal, comparativly, because they helped everybody get solarised, and have taken on a huge huge amount of energy intensive manufacturing that gets exported, while adding massive amounts of pv, wind , and hydro power and reducing there own internal share of coal. The full picture is very complicated with a lot of moving pieces, one of the biggest is that currently China is burning coal in order to protect it's oil reserves while the west wages war on Chinas two biggest suppliers of energy, and sanctions chinese intrests for buying energy on what THEY consider, the open market.
Thank God they didn't weigh in getting more oil or your local gasoline price will just jump rocket high.
Huh? Weren't they also the leaders in reforestation, solar energy... all that feel good green stuff? I'm experiencing cognitive dissonance of the highest order.
Two things can be true. Is that the same as cognitive dissonance?
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