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0 pointsflir4mo ago0 comments

China's target is 2060.

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China doesn't have one side of the political spectrum trying to shutter any talk of renewables, they're just installing them at breakneck speed.

naIak4mo ago

We just need to execute the side of the political spectrum that we don't like. That way society will really get ahead.

logifail4mo ago

> China's target is 2060

"China plans to keep building coal-fired power plants through 2027 in regions where they are needed to meet peak power demand or stabilise the grid, according to government guidelines"

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/china-...

flirOP4mo ago

And yet they used less coal in 2024 than they did in 2023.

Maybe it's just an economic downturn. But... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/26/china-breaks-m...

I just don't buy that carbon neutrality necessarily results in expensive electricity.

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