China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total - EcoWatch
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China installed more new solar capacity last year than the total amount ever installed in any other country.

China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total::China installed more new solar capacity last year than the total amount ever installed in any other country.

  • Altofaltception@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    There’s a reason the US is targeting China from various fronts (trade restrictions, sanctions, etc.). China is a powerhouse and the US is terrified of being left behind.

    • sir_reginald@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I don’t get why you’re getting dowvoted. I guess there are a lot of Americans over here. But your statement is absolutely true. The US attempts at restricting China’s access to various technologies only make sense if they feel threatened by them.

  • conditional_soup@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Currently seeing the US climate narrative shift from “why should we stop burning fossils and get our shit together when China won’t? >:(” to “why should we stop burning fossils and get our shit together when Senegal won’t? >:(” Can’t wait for 20 years from now when we’re balls deep in climate disasters, Senegal gets its shit together, and the US narrative moves to honduras El Salvador Uganda comparing itself to the Philippines.

    Holy crap you guys, it turns out that the narrative that the developing world is going to burn an ass-ton of fossil fuels is a lot weaker than I thought. It looks like there’s a fuckton of equatorial and global south countries with renewables/hydro power, Honduras is even adding Geothermal. God damn it, USA, get off your ass and fix your shit already.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Its because China isn’t beholden to a bunch of invisible suits demanding money over all else. Apparently the US can’t break from Citizens United, and tell this corpos whats what to literally save its own skin.

    • PatFusty@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Lol XDDDDD

      Thinking China isn’t beholden to an invisible elite is the laugh I needed today

      How did their presidential election go again?

      • 2952 votes for

      • 0 votes against

      • 0 votes abstain

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Good. I assume it helps that most of the world’s solar panel manufacturing is based in China.

    The rest of the world should be ramping up production, not relying on China for cheap labour.

    • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      US total wealth: 139+ trillion (in USD)

      China total wealth: 84+ trillion (in USD)

      It’s not a function of population. It’s a function of wealth and the will to use that wealth to invest in clean energy. The US has entrenched interests in keeping the oil flowing. China isn’t investing in clean energy for altruism, they do it because they don’t have rich reserves of oil, but at least they’re doing the right thing, even if it’s not necessarily for the right reasons.

      • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Agreed that wealth also is a relevant parameter. But it is also a function of the population because what fraction of your population’s power consumption is coming from a renewable source is a more interesting metric than your raw renewable power production.

          • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            yes and hence why it is currently only reasonable to compare things like total renewable energy production vs total household energy requirements of a country. production energy is too global to tackle with this approach. and so why I just casually mentioned population is an important factor in how much renewable energy you should be producing.

  • occhionaut@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This was done with the express purpose of having the title of it. Its a vanity project that wont last 10 years.

      • ryathal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 year ago

        China regularly does vanity projects to get positive headlines. Mass tree planting has been a popular one, the trees are generally all dead in a year or two, but they got the pro environment headline.