Fascinating growth made by China!

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[u/CosmicCreeperz]

State of the art buildings, lighting, and electric cars… mostly still powered by coal. 🙄

[u/Nerezza_Floof_Seeker → u/CosmicCreeperz]

While yes, alot of their electricity is based on coal for now, theyve been rapidly expanding renewable production and nuclear power. Its almost like large countries cant instantly transition out of fossil fuel use overnight....

Edit: also worth pointing out that gridscale fossil fuel power generation is vastly more efficient than anything ylu can achieve personally, so electric cars running on electricity from coal are not as silly as it sounds

[u/oneoftheordinary → u/Nerezza_Floof_Seeker]

China has built more coal power plants than any other country in the last 5 years

[u/lnyxia → u/oneoftheordinary]

China also has the most renewable energy plants in the world. They produce 32% of renewable energy followed by 11% from the US.

[u/TheBananaKart → u/lnyxia]

Are you sure France is pretty much all nuclear and renewable https://www.rte-france.com/en/eco2mix/power-generation-energy-source#

[u/lnyxia → u/TheBananaKart]

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/renewable-energy-by-country

France is a tiny country, you can't compare 100% of 1 with 30% of 100.

[u/TheBananaKart → u/lnyxia]

Yes but surely no good having 30% renewable is the other 70% is coal. More countries should be like France in terms of energy infrastructure.

[u/lnyxia → u/TheBananaKart]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://climateenergyfinance.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MONTHLY-CHINA-ENERGY-UPDATE-Feb-2025.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiu2vH4mLuMAxV6rlYBHf2ZIGUQFnoECCcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2VGoHdX8gYSO2EWzWZKphM

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fossil-fuels-per-capita?country=GBR~OWID_EUR~IND~CHN~USA~FRA~AUS~ZAF~DEU~RUS~SAU

China isn't far behind, and with the amount of investment in the renewable sector, they will become one of the "cleanest" countries within a decade or so.

I'm sure France is trying, but being stuck in the EU amist, all this chaos isn't helping them.