this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2025
97 points (100.0% liked)
Green Energy
4323 readers
48 users here now
Everything about energy production and storage.
Related communities:
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Their emissions per capita are skyrocketing, but their emissions per gdp and emissions per kwh are going down. The country is still developing, so it's energy demand is going up. At least it doesn't have large fossil fuel reserves, so pushes them towards renewables.
That last part isn't true, unfortunately. China extracts more coal than the rest of the world's top ten producers combined
Hmm yeah looks like China is number 2 in coal reserves behind the US. Is it in a more inaccessible part of the country?
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_coal_reserves
I believe it's concentrated in the north, close to Beijing but far from many of the other large cities