Fucking hell that is slow. Germany, wtf?
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As an addition: In its report, The Global Coal Exit List 2025: Troubling Trends Towards Chemicals and Captive Power, the NGO Urgewald identifies India, China, and the U.S. as the main obstacles for a coal phase-out.
China is a surprise to me, didn't know they use that much coal for non energy production. At least they are scaling down when it comes to energy.
According to the Chinese Communist Party's recently released 15th five-year plan: compared to the 14th five-year plan, China’s goals for non-fossil energy additions would see China’s annual green energy additions fall by more than half in the next five years, while at the same time, fossil fuel energy consumption would increase by 8-10%,
China is not on track to meet its 2060 carbon neutrality goal, according to climate think tank, Carbon Action Tracker.
They will burn the question is whether that fire comes before or after there's any benefit to be had from any of it Americans are already turning off power to people without shutting down the plants or making anything what's the actual down side of burning it all down
So they want get rid of coal and gas peakers? While critically depending on imports from neighbors when the renewables don't deliver?
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