You say icy water. Can people go swimming in the lake?
Research analyst and senior East Asia strategist at Global Energy Monitor
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You say icy water. Can people go swimming in the lake?
Why do you “thank God for IVF, scientists, and science”? Is the god behind every single good thing? Then who is behind those bad things like infertility?
Left China 20 years ago and found the US is more and more like China in many ways. When the employment numbers didn’t look good, China stopped to post it and the US fired the head of statistic agency. A command and control economy implemented in China 1950s-1970s, famines and destructions followed.
So, EU is not able to buy $250 billion of US fossil fuels, and US is not able to sell that much either. But they signed an agreement anyway. Is this a joke? Are they making a muddy pie like two kids?
GEM grew from a bold idea to a near 90 staff nonprofit isn’t only by chance or luck. It’s the sophisticated strategy Ted crafted laid foundation for it. Ted’s legacy will be carried on. Wish GEM go higher and further under new leadership of Justin. Be a pivotal org in the transition to clean energy.
Unthinkable just 10 years ago: Almost 3/4 of the EU’s electricity in 2024 was from renewable energy sources and nuclear. Gas and coal electricity generation is at record low levels.
Is this a real hiring or a joke?
Gas power has grown quickly in the past four years in China, but geopolitical and economic uncertainties make it a vulnerability. Maggie and I wrote an op-ed to argue that betting on gas is a short-sighted strategy.
After Spain/Portugal blackout, a Chinese friend said that such things won’t happen in China because “we have coal”. Spain will learn lessons from the accident but going back to coal is not one. Seeking comfort from coal is a default solution for many Chinese in energy sector.
China permitted 10 nuclear reactors today. The 4th year in a row adding at least 10 each year. It’s passed France and only after the US, Like in a competition game. Only it’s playing an extremely deadly, extremely dirty and extremely expensive power game.
Even Gold Trump pin is made in China!
The T-shirt saying boycott China is made in China!
This is the first time I saw the sun was labeled as “her”. I sensed the softness of her rise.
Traveled in southern China for 2 weeks. A big impression compared to 10-15 years ago was that the streets in big cities like Guangzhou were much quieter thanks to the EV. No more loud motors and buses. Hong Kong, on the contrary, is still noisy, especially those big buses.
2024 is the 5th year in a row that China’s power consumption increase is faster than its GDP growth. In other words, consuming more power didn’t result in higher economic value, only delayed China’s carbon peak and energy transition. It’s a lose-lose situation.
There was a 8-magnitude earthquake near Tingri in 1833, and a 8.6 earthquake in in 1950 in Yarlung Zangbo. With no economic feasibility, it is unnecessary to invest more than one trillion yuan to forcibly develop the Yarlung Zangbo hydropower at the cost of natural and social environmental damages.
Forward: 6.8-magnitude earthquake in Tingri, Tibet is a warning. The Tingri area and the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon area are both in the southern earthquake zone of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The many huge faults distributed along the Himalayas are the most active earthquake fault in modern times.
A mega dam on Yarlung Tsangpo 3 times as big as Three Gorges Dam is approved. When TGD planned in 1980s, experts and activists debating for it. When Nu River Dams were planned in 2000s, a civil movement successfully postponed it. Sadly no voice within China this time. China’s civil society is dead.
23 “super-emitter” scale methane emissions linked to 8 global coal mines. Three of them in China. GEM’s new briefing found out. 23 super methane plumes were detected by satellites since January 2023 and repeated in the span of 16 months.
#Switzerland’s amazing Alpine cabins have become part of our national identity. Yet as a microcosm of the global climate crisis, they are now at risk from melting #permafrost, receding glaciers and other threats. 😢 My personal reflections on the topic on #SwissClimateRambles at tinyurl.com/52ypwmh3
What a COE, centralized , monopolistic and bureaucratic entity can do with this dispersed resource is remained to be seen.
To decarbonize heavy industry like iron/steel and aluminum, China needs to increase scraped metal significantly. 2023 China’s scrapped iron/steel saw a 1.2% drop on recycling amount and 3.6% drop on value compared to 2022. Scrapped non-ferrous metals are better with 5.6% and 0.3% increase.
A new Central government owned enterprise (COE), China Resources Recycling Group was quietly established in October. No. 98 COE with a goal to build a national recycling and reuse platform. SASAC, Baowu Steel, Sinopec, China Resources, Chinalco and China Minmetals are major shareholders.
Wish all turkeys and humans a happy and harmonious Thanksgiving!
2023 China produced 4.7 billion tonnes of coal (51% of the world) and imported another 470 mt. Only 58% of it was used for power generation. As comparison, 92% of coal in the US was for power generation. Coal issue in China is not only a power issue.
Nerodia erythrogaster. Also called water snake. I use Google picture search and get this name. Hopefully it’s right.
The Energy Law requires news media to promote energy saving, energy safety and green, low-carbon development. — it’s typical a Chinese cliche but I wish all news outlets can do that without a law requirement.
Overall however the law is mainly a bureaucratic update of existing laws on different energy sources and subsectors.
China's new energy law, after two decades in the making, was issued recently. THREAD dialogue.earth/en/digest/ch...
www.bbc.com/future/artic... Xiaoying You, a reward winning freelancer, spent months digging into China’s UHV grid, a unique phenomenon. She interviewed a dozen people including me, half of them men and half of them women, an interesting requirement by BBC. Today the story finally comes out!
A test post: last week in the town of Meilen when the sun managed to break the thick clouds.
