Last year, China installed almost 70 gigawatts of new coal power capacity
naw I don't care
also a quick google search China aims to build 150 new reactors by 2035 to reach 200 GW of nuclear power. So yes, we could also pivot to Coal but we have lots of oil and gas. The US is a coal exporter, btw. The US is somewhat better insulated from the price shock than say Europe or Asia (https://oilprice.com/) note on the link that West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is the cheapest of main 3 benchmarks. It generally is cheaper for several reasons but one is that the US is producing a lot of oil right now. About 13.5M BPD. the largest oil producer in the world https://www.forbes.com/sites/katharinabuchholz/2026/02/27/chinas-new-coal-power-installations-reach-18-year-high/  Previous Message Forget sequestration, just let carbon rise to 800 ppm (how long if you decarbonize everything except primary energy) until nukes take over. Are Chinese working on nukes? So central plants are coal then nukes, and oil/gas not so important. Maybe hydrogen or batteries for portable power… Previous Message they produce about 5M barrels per day but use 16M They do have lots of coal. One reason they lean into it so hard. Lack of oil is one reason they have tried to electrify so much, and use renewables (hydro, wind and sola) But oil and gas are hard to get away from. Lots of energy in those barrels and they store well, and transport well ect Previous Message
Without looking at the actual numbers and figures, I assume China produces a ton domestically. But it still imports most of it. Strikes me as kind of odd given how vast China is.
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on March 12, 2026, 9:55:54, in reply to "If you only worry about particulates and chemicals other than CO/CO2, is coal an option?"