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Bla bla bla bla, just more climate scam bull
Can converting Solar & Wind electricity into electrically generated hydrogen fuel solve (or at least be a stepping-stone towards solving) China's energy-transportation problem?
(Just thinking outloud…)
Isn’t this all just “kabuki theater”?? 😂
Snowy Hydro produces 4,500GW. In a State that increases it's population by 100,000 per year, we would need to build one of these every two years just to accommodate them. This is a future environmental disaster in the making.
Next issue to tackle – intermittency.
China is doing it right.
Bloomberg report: China Added More Solar Panels in 2023 Than US Did In Its Entire History
For a complete picture, I'd like to know the full cradle to grave cost and exposure for massive solar and wind farms. Thanks, good review.
Try to search how China develop hydrogen generations for tackling the excess of green energy. And try to check on China growing nuclear energy and a paper about how to convert coal power plant to nuclear power plant. Last you should also cover on how China grow their forest before only saying China is polluting 😏
Chinas winning folks
Sounds like China is trying to develop domestic energy for strategic purposes
More MOOORE 😡😡 Kylo Ren meme
All i took away from this is that China was positioned in a unique space to do this. Unilateral decision making means no gov or ecological hurdles to get it done, and they had the production to produce panels for super cheap and subsidize their own production due to external tariffs.
With the collapse of Evergrande, China's debt balloon collapsing in on itself across multiple sectors, and mass government and military corruption, major projects like this one are unlikely to ever be completed because every aspect of the Chinese economy is going to be severely impacted. Their economy probably won't collapse but major projects like this one will almost certainly have to be put on hold indefinitely to prevent a total economic collapse.
RE curtailment is a massive problem when you can't turndown coal fired power stations far enough. Storage solutions for the 'excess' RE must go hand in hand with installing RE. The storage does not need to be near the RE – better being distributed where the electricity is used and at stress points on the electricity grid.
China has a big population this seems a good step I am not sure it works really well yet as they continue with coal power stations hope they get thorium working for base load power.
How come there are no projects like these in Saudi Arabia, Koweit or United Arab Emirates where the sun is pretty there all the time ???
China's doing so well with the road and belt initiative. NOT. Haven't you been paying attention. All the corruption in its construction industry there. The coal problem was not because of covid. China shut down a whole bunch of sketchy coal mines. Plus there was a trade war with Australia, and banned coal from Australia. Solar panels in the desert is a bad idea. Ever hear of sand blasting. Their communist, they lie.
Clean energy at the expense of freedom is not a good trade. Government control of energy will enslave its population.
Solar power plants in the desert go together with farming in the deserts. They can grow together perfectly. One hundred years later, the deserts will disappear.
You might want to also cover that China is also constructing coal power plants at a rapid rate as well.
I'm predicting a documentary made in about 15 years:
"How and Why China's Deserts Became a Wasteland"
All those solar panels need maintenance, especially more in a desert. Considering the Evergrande fiasco and all those useless abandoned railways and stations, I'm pretty skeptical.
If they can pull it off, grow and maintain it, I will be super stoked, I am a tech nerd myself you know. But them doing it rapidly seems like a bad sign to me.
Wildlife habitat destruction
Looks like China is taking the saying "go big or go home" to a whole new level!
More than a 150+ countries signed up with the Belt and Road Initiative. There can't be 150+ stupid countries, can there? Only the West knows better? It seems to me that one cannot mention China without adding some dose of negativity to the story nowadays.
Stakeholders is right. One side has to defeat the other side.
The horse design is pretty cool. Not sure about efficiency, but its cool.
China + renewable energy = 🕊🦉
For every kWh of solar/wind power, a kWh of other power is required when the sun isn’t shining.
I'm about half way through this.
What the USA could do is force local power companies to give a specific minimum energy buyback, as well as give bigger tax breaks for purchasing solar. I need a $22,000 setup to achieve neutral energy and would LOVE to, but since my extra energy won't build me credits with my local company, and the money I'd get back from taxes would be minimal….I just can't.
One Belt, One Road is China’s version of the Marshall Plan. If Europeans think it is neocolonialism, then they should be more worried about the impact of the US on Europe.😂
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China does the renewables for the good of its people and environment, but in the US is done only for profiteers and corporations. That's why it is not going to be as effective as it is in China. In China it is a government project, while in the US it is the private sector which wants to enrich itself.
China doesn't care about the health of it's citizens, or being "green". It cares about power and global prestige. If it needed to run on 100% coal, it would.
Cant they make like several giant panels?
I thought Matt was going to say, "Gosh it's almost like there are tremendous benefits to…central planning."
Since the world is running out of sand, I want to see solar-powered glass factories in the desert.
Everyone says "Just destroy beaches!"
No.
Desert sand isn't suitable for construction because it has been blown around for millenia and the grains are rounded, but it works for glass, it just tends to be far from the industrial centers in cities.
Kubuqi is more than a renewable energy project. The shade beneath the solar panel alllows grasses and brushes to grow. Now the projects subsidize local people to buy goats and herd inside the project. It is now a self-sustaining ecosystem. Imagine how much impact to the life of local desert people. They went from dirt-poor into proud and rich goats keepers in 1 year! What if Saharh could do the same so as to lift the locals out of generational poverty??
No matter how you feel about China. If anybody could turn desert into grassland, and achieve zero emission, it can only be China!
Besides solar panels, we need next-level technology on power transmission. Could DC power transmission methods be possible ? Also, power storage for the nighttime periods ? More development of non-lithium storage of energy ?