China is winning in every imaginable way
China is winning in every imaginable way
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China is winning in every imaginable way
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ok I think we get it, he doesn't like renewables and net zero, this is all he has posted about for well over a year:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/d/da-de/david-blackmon/
I also find it a bit hypocritical? paradoxical? that he is unhappy about renewables while simultaneously being upset that China is winning the race... on renewables
I honestly laughed out loud when I read this headline at Oilprice.com Friday morning: “China is Winning The Race for Ultra-Fast Charging EV Batteries,” it says.
the same guy a year ago
Electric 18-wheelers are even stupider than electric cars
Maybe he missed this part:
China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-07-16/chinas-renewable-energy-boom-breaks-records/104086640
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You shouldn't expect anything else from the Torygraph, it's all nostalgia bait and hate mongering to comfort their snobby readership (and to prop up his links to fossil fuel companies).
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The inevitable end result will be subservience to China.
citation needed
These folks like to throw around words like subservience, but I'm not sure how you get that without conquering someone militarily. People like to talk about NATO subservience to the US, for instance, but Trump doesn't seem to be waltzing into Greenland any time soon. Pretty weak subservience if you ask me, given how much smaller Denmark is than the US.
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citation needed
World’s reserve currency. When it inevitably switches to the yuan you’ll have your subservience.
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World’s reserve currency. When it inevitably switches to the yuan
That's neither inevitable nor likely at this point. China's capital controls, ongoing devaluation of its currency and demonstrated willingness to prioritize the state over investors –at least some of which are positive things I wish we had– make Chinese assets in general and the renminbi in particular not investible to the degree necessary to achieve reserve status. The euro has better chances for now, especially if European debt is unified and becomes more liquid.
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The West is de-industrialising itself in the quest for Net Zero
That has never been the case, and it's in the title of the article...
I honestly laughed out loud
That's a bad and vulgar sentence, and why I won't read the rest of this crap. Have a nice day as they say.
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David [Blackmon] led numerous industry-wide efforts to address a variety of issues at the local, state and federal level, and from April 2010 through June 2012, he served as the Texas State Lead for America’s Natural Gas Alliance
America's Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) works with industry, government and customer stakeholders to promote increased demand for and continued availability of our nation’s abundant natural gas resource for a cleaner and more secure energy future.
Huh, would you look at that. The usual fair, unbiased reporting from the Torygraph.
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Are you winning if your only opponent suddenly changes into a child who throws tantrums every other day?
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If you indirectly support that or it even just happens to coincide with your goals, yeah, it is.
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Yes. Simply not disintegrating while your opponent does is a valid way to win. Perhaps even the easiest way to win.
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https://www.amazon.com/Winner-Take-All-Chinas-Resources-ebook/dp/B0080K3FHM/
told people YEARS ago that China was enacting REAL strategy, & it's still true, now.
( the fact that Chinese corruption undermines their country, & the party-rule system is intrinsically-corrupt, are side-issues.
The fact that their Belt & Road program has been mopping-up opportunity, while the West has been playing petty wrestling-matches over feelings, is going to be costing us our lives, soon. )
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A lot of the problem competing with China in heavy industry is they use a lot of coal for electricity generation vs. places like the US that use cleaner but more expensive natural gas China also has a government policy to subsidize industry through energy pricing schemes.
If the west insisted China maintain similar environmental rules, western industry would have been a lot more competitive.
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Natural gas electricity contributes more greenhouse gasses per kwh than coal though. The PRC also has lower co2 emissions per capita.
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https://www.cowi.com/news-and-press/news/2023/comparing-co2-emissions-from-different-energy-sources/
Natural gas: 290-930 g CO2e/kWh
Coal: 740-1689 g CO2e/kWh.So coal is twice as bad on CO2 per kW compared to natural gas. Apart from poluting way more in particles and heavy metals, that cause cancer and respiratory diseases.
Repeat after me: "Coal is so BAD basically EVERYTHING else is better."
Now try to remember it too.The expansion of electricity in UK is based on Nuclear and wind turbines. So even if you compare heat generated by electricity compared to heat generated directly from coal. Electricity comes out ahead. And as the sources are moved more and more towards renewables, this will only get better over time.
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Nobody wins in a race to planetary destruction.
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UwU chinwa can I hwave swome high spweepd wail twoo 🥺
Kill me
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