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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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Are you winning if your only opponent suddenly changes into a child who throws tantrums every other day?
Yes. Simply not disintegrating while your opponent does is a valid way to win. Perhaps even the easiest way to win.
If you indirectly support that or it even just happens to coincide with your goals, yeah, it is.
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
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).
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.
citation needed
World’s reserve currency. When it inevitably switches to the yen you’ll have your subservience.
Yuan. Yen is Japanese.
Switching to yen would be wild. Imagine a small island nation being the world's purse strings. Surely could never happen 🤔
By that logic, China is currently subservient to the US. Is it?
To a certain financial extent, the rest of the world is subservient to the reserve currency.
Uh, no, not really, I don't think the reserve currency makes China subservient to us in any way, shape or form. It's not like the US can somehow remote control the dollars in distribution out in the world, or somehow control who gets them and who doesn't. Under our capitalist system, anyone can get their hands on some if they really want. There's also nothing really stopping them from buying a bunch of Euros too, and honestly, they probably have a bunch of those in savings as well. And some Japanese yen, Korean won, etc etc etc, alongside gold and everything else under the sun. That's just smart diversification of assets.
Being the global reserve of preference for everybody does confer a certain advantage in ease of trade, but it's really overblown. It's not like the Euro or Yuan is some worthless scrap of paper nobody wants. It definitely doesn't confer any sort of control.
Any other thoughts?
I’ll stop there since you haven’t said anything to discount my points.
citation needed
World’s reserve currency. When it inevitably switches to the yuan you’ll have your subservience.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Natural gas electricity contributes more greenhouse gasses per kwh than coal though. The PRC also has lower co2 emissions per capita.
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.
Yes, but natural gas is a more potent greenhouse gas than co2 and there are continuous natural gas leaks. All the CO2 savings (vs coal) from each KwH of burned natural gas is completely negated by all the leaks on the way to the consumer. Note that most oil companies are very bad at reporting leaks, we basically have to measure them manually from satellites to know about them.
Never said electrification was a bad thing, just natural gas. Instead of building new natural gas plants and patting ourselves on the back for it not being coal, we should just build more renewables.
There is good evidence that natural gas infrastructure is so leaky that it could well be worse than coal on the GHG front. Now, coal is still the leader in a lot of other areas, and we're better off moving away from both of them, but the argument that coal is better than natural gas isn't completely without merit.
Nobody wins in a race to planetary destruction.