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Coal demand set a record high in 2024, according to the International Energy Agency’s annual report published on Wednesday. Considering the commodity is the most important contributor to global warming, its consumption trends matter enormously for the fight against climate change. The report makes for a depressing reading: The planet is losing to our unquenchable demand for king coal. Forget all the slogans about consigning coal to history. We’re on a path to consigning the planet to history.
Took out the China bit as its just the industrial engine we’ve outsourced our dirtiest emissions too
Interesting, considering China makes super cheap solar panels.
For what I have understood, they don’t make enough. Also I understood/read somewhere that it should be enough for the world consumption in 2035. So take all that with a grain of salt.
China produces more solar panels every year than the rest of the world combined. But it’s still not enough.
There’s just too many Chinese people! Too much manufacturing. Too much of everything in China.
China is huge but there’s still not enough space to grow food for all those people so they have to import loads and loads of it just to feed everyone. They’re well on their way to putting solar panels everywhere they can but any space that has food growing potential is a no-panel zone.
They also lack the infrastructure to transport solar energy across the nation. It’s another thing they’re working on… So even if they cover a huge area of unlivable desert with solar panels they don’t have the means to get that power where it’s needed.