Hamas commander visiting his family? That makes his family all Hamas. His family talks with other people? They're now Hamas, too.
So on and so forth until you can justify bombing anything that moves.
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China doesn't have much domestic O&G supply and nuclear reactors are so expensive they might as well use them for base load. You play the hand you're dealt.
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China building out future coal capacity is more or less independent from expected future coal consumption.
That sounds like a crazy claim, so let me clarify: China is actively shrinking coal power plant utilization. The only reason, then, to build more capacity is to better manage peak loads. If you were following the rolling blackouts, you'd know that these are a huge problem in China in the summers.
So... Yeah, the first-order data itself isn't great, but the second-order data tells us that coal isn't a first class citizen anymore.
Biden is pandering to Americans by being confrontational, and Xi is pandering to the world by being collaborative?
And even though many plants were producing more last year to compensate for the decline in hydropower output, the average utilisation rate inched down to 52.4%
This past year, China couldn't run their hydro at peak capacity because of a drought. That's why fossil fuel consumption went up. It's not exactly rocket science. China will deploy more solar capacity this year than the entire US has done... Ever. Because of that (and the massive EV transition), China is expected to hit peak oil this year and peak coal next year.
Meanwhile, US fossil fuel-based energy production is growing YoY at a faster rate than China's coal consumption is - it's just that the US is replacing coal with natural gas... And it's very VERY iffy as to whether natural gas is actually better than coal.
More austerity, I'm sure that'll fix things.
The time from inception to going online for a new Nuclear reactor is in the range of 15-25 years.
In the US. In China, nuclear reactors go from first pour to operation in 5-6 years. Economies of scale apply.
Today, there is 413GW of nuclear capacity globally. Of that, 57GW is in China.
China plans to reach 300GW of nuclear capacity by 2035. Assuming linear growth, that number will be around 550GW by 2050 (more than double the current global nuclear capacity) There are currently 57 nuclear power plants under construction. 21 are in China. 1 is in the US.
This US pledge is basically useless.
Citing MBFC, known for being reliable and unbiased /s
According to an author that still calls the place by its colonial British name? Pot, meet kettle...
I always note that they're unwilling to show a map of where these incidents occur.
Odd, that.