Renewable energy exports at an all-time high in July, driven by customers in Africa (including Middle East) and Southeast Asia.
Climate Change and Renewable Energy News and Discussion
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supercat
Colonel
China's energy strategy for its future computing and data centers, a thread:
Adjuncts don't get paid shit, have variable hours, and are essentially at the absolute bottom of academia. They're there to do the shit that nobody else wants to do.
Mingyang scoring major contract in UK with Octopus Energy.
(parent company of Natixis)
Just adding broader context pertaining to this writer, her employer(s), and the platform upon which she published. It's clear she fully represents propagation of false Western narratives intended to manipulate and deceive the public.
I must said that China renewable energy development is one of the strongest points in hard power and soft power.
Lethe
Captain
in Foreign Policy magazine posits the tension between fossil fuel and renewable energy interests as the basis for a new Cold War conducted between a Sino-European bloc and a USA-Russia-Saudi bloc, with the Global South as a major battlefield. The author perhaps overstates his case, but it is an interesting read nonetheless:
What is missing from this and similar narratives is the fundamental difference between dependency on fossil fuels and dependency on (mostly Chinese, as stipulated) renewable energy technologies and infrastructure. If the supply of fossil fuels is interrupted then existing ICE vehicles, power plants, home furnaces, etc. cease to operate, more-or-less immediately. If the supply of Chinese-manufactured renewable energy infrastructure is interrupted, existing infrastructure will continue to operate for years, perhaps decades. Ongoing maintenance and spare parts may be required, and certainly new contracts are required to support capacity expansion or the eventual renewal of aged infrastructure, but those things play out over dramatically elongated timescales relative to the dependencies engendered by fossil fuels, allowing for substitution with alternative infrastructure if required. Renewable energy infrastructure does not substitute one form of dependency for another, but rather liberates the communities, nations, etc. that use it from dependency on fossil fuel supply, infrastructure and market variability.
What is missing from this and similar narratives is the fundamental difference between dependency on fossil fuels and dependency on (mostly Chinese, as stipulated) renewable energy technologies and infrastructure. If the supply of fossil fuels is interrupted then existing ICE vehicles, power plants, home furnaces, etc. cease to operate, more-or-less immediately. If the supply of Chinese-manufactured renewable energy infrastructure is interrupted, existing infrastructure will continue to operate for years, perhaps decades. Ongoing maintenance and spare parts may be required, and certainly new contracts are required to support capacity expansion or the eventual renewal of aged infrastructure, but those things play out over dramatically elongated timescales relative to the dependencies engendered by fossil fuels, allowing for substitution with alternative infrastructure if required. Renewable energy infrastructure does not substitute one form of dependency for another, but rather liberates the communities, nations, etc. that use it from dependency on fossil fuel supply, infrastructure and market variability.
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