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The chart is misleading because it compares China's capacity of renewable energy with China's total energy generation. The appropriate metric is to compare it with the generation of electricity. This is a misconception we see very often. The following tells you why it's wrong.
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Countries still use a lot of not-electricity for industry, transportation, building heating and cooling, etc, and for that, they use fossil fuels. The substitution method shows you how many fossil fuels are used for those applications in TWh terms, but makes no judgment about whether we actually would or could use electricity instead.
Indeed, for many of those things, there simply does not yet exist an cost-effective electrified subsitute, so it would be impossible for renewables to perform that work (in any country).
The burst of the AI bubble will be worse than the dot-com bubble.
Chinese made 2 billion trips during the holiday season in early October. The Financial Times: no evidence of spending!
Today's partial list of "But At What Cost?"