It is called ‘transition’, and it stopped increasing. If one looks at 2025 preliminary data, one can see it has flattened out, continuing with the 2024 trend.
> The rejection of renewable energy and turning back to coal is pure ideology, a macho rejection of environmentalism and wokeism.
To me, this sounds... naïve at best. Coal and especially oil are well-moneyed interests, and also important voting groups.
It's also an ideological, but not entirely nonsensical, fight against subsidizing industries. Which is not quite wise, at the time when China still seriously subsidizes solar and wind.
Yes, but see previous paragraph :-\ Also, how about subsidizing sugar industry (which continues since the Louisiana Purchase), or, gasp, farmers? I suspect that the current administration is not, well, reckless enough to touch these wasp nests (no pun intended).
Meanwhile, their coal production can currently be found on wikipedia[0].
It has increased greatly over the last decade and is much greater than their solar and hydro production, and is roughly 60% of their output.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_in_China
China has coal and not much gas. You can abstract away from simplistic comparisons by calculating the CO2 per KWh for the entire grid mix.
China is at 493 CO2 per kWh over the last 12 months.
The US is much richer and has easy access to gas and has 444 over the same period.
Germany, the laggard in western Europe is 314
Stats from electricitymaps:
https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/US-NW-WACM/12mo/monthly...
It is called ‘transition’, and it stopped increasing. If one looks at 2025 preliminary data, one can see it has flattened out, continuing with the 2024 trend.
> The rejection of renewable energy and turning back to coal is pure ideology, a macho rejection of environmentalism and wokeism.
To me, this sounds... naïve at best. Coal and especially oil are well-moneyed interests, and also important voting groups.
It's also an ideological, but not entirely nonsensical, fight against subsidizing industries. Which is not quite wise, at the time when China still seriously subsidizes solar and wind.
But coal is super subsidized? the price of new solar is cheaper than the price of new coal
For my friends, everything, for my enemies, the law! (Oh snap, who actually said that?)
Republican policy is so bad people need to pretend they are doing exactly the opposite of what they are actually doing in order to defend it.
> It's also an ideological, but not entirely nonsensical, fight against subsidizing industries.
If it were that, then we'd stop subsidizing coal and oil as well.
Yes, but see previous paragraph :-\ Also, how about subsidizing sugar industry (which continues since the Louisiana Purchase), or, gasp, farmers? I suspect that the current administration is not, well, reckless enough to touch these wasp nests (no pun intended).