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China Is The World's First Electrostate - CleanTechnica (cleantechnica.com)

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[–] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

China still burns more coal every year than every single other country on earth put together.

This matters a lot, because it doesn't matter that you're "using electricity" if it's coming from a big ol' coal pollution factory.

In some ways, it's preferable to directly use the coal in some applications -- changing from chemical energy to thermal to movement to electricity back to thermal energy can be less efficient than just changing the chemical energy to thermal energy and using that directly.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 2 months ago

This used to be true, but it's out of date now. China, like it or not idk, is outpacing us, and is turning off more coal by the day.

The predictable result of all that new renewable energy is that emissions in China declined slightly in the first four months of 2025. No other industrialized country saw similar reductions. “China now leads the 4th Industrial Revolution, making huge strides in electrification, renewable energy, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and the Internet of Things. And, just as oil and gas drive the petrostates of the Arab world [and most other countries as well], clean energy technologies are powering China’s growth,” says OilPrice.com.

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