Thanks, Yun/Adam - as always, a deep and insightful read. Difficult reading (especially for a technician!), but always welcome. I have to put off reading your articles until I have time to not just skim them, like I do for most essays, these days!
Do you agree that China's greatest danger is that it will disappear down the gurgler because of climate change? From water shortages, rising sea levels, disastrous weather events, accelerating desertification, starvation, over-population, rising dust levels, deaths from heat exhaustion, floods etc? As the world's biggest emitter of deadly carbon gases, shouldn't the CCP be thinking harder about all of this instead of just including one extraordinarily weak statement about an undated "after reaching their peak", as though it's all hunkydory and going to happen automatically? Would you like to pay more attention in your truly excellent coverage to the question of whether the CCP has its head in the sand? Congratulations, keep up the good work, and good luck! Roy Forward.
Good point - my take on it, to the few listening near my soapbox since Australia started politicising CO2 and using China as the 'bigger drug dealer excuse', was that China was ramping up it's windfarm and solar installs at the highest rate they could, and were only installing coal plants to make up the shortfall. After all, their production ramp-up was going ballistic at this stage. And if they kept up their renewable and transmission line installs, it would get to a tipping point, maybe like now, where production slowed, and 'suddenly, out of the blue' they would announce they're going renewable, and gee, sorry Australia - your guaranteed sales of coal are no longer needed.
Thanks, Yun/Adam - as always, a deep and insightful read. Difficult reading (especially for a technician!), but always welcome. I have to put off reading your articles until I have time to not just skim them, like I do for most essays, these days!
Do you agree that China's greatest danger is that it will disappear down the gurgler because of climate change? From water shortages, rising sea levels, disastrous weather events, accelerating desertification, starvation, over-population, rising dust levels, deaths from heat exhaustion, floods etc? As the world's biggest emitter of deadly carbon gases, shouldn't the CCP be thinking harder about all of this instead of just including one extraordinarily weak statement about an undated "after reaching their peak", as though it's all hunkydory and going to happen automatically? Would you like to pay more attention in your truly excellent coverage to the question of whether the CCP has its head in the sand? Congratulations, keep up the good work, and good luck! Roy Forward.
Good point - my take on it, to the few listening near my soapbox since Australia started politicising CO2 and using China as the 'bigger drug dealer excuse', was that China was ramping up it's windfarm and solar installs at the highest rate they could, and were only installing coal plants to make up the shortfall. After all, their production ramp-up was going ballistic at this stage. And if they kept up their renewable and transmission line installs, it would get to a tipping point, maybe like now, where production slowed, and 'suddenly, out of the blue' they would announce they're going renewable, and gee, sorry Australia - your guaranteed sales of coal are no longer needed.