Blaming an increase in the rate of carbon increases on China's coal consumption seems rather incongruent with the facts. Are we all choosing to ignore the second-order effects of methane emissions from natural gas? Methane does break down back to CO2, after all, but while it's still methane it's a substantially more potent greenhouse gas.

Fuck. Natural. Gas.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Perhaps I’m misunderstanding the intent here, but doesn’t “heading towards peak” literally mean “increase” in this context?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Additionally, Chinese coal power is what provides and enables all of the cheap goods Americans can't get enough of.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just so you know, each of the headlines you posted suggested that China's consumption of coal is more than ever before, in agreement with the prior poster. Also clean coal has nothing to do with CO2 reduction, it's scrubbing other nasties like SO2.

It's good that they're expecting this to max out imminently, but it's still a max.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Supercritical coal reactors are absolutely used to reduce CO2 emissions per unit coal, what do you mean?

Higher efficiency -> less losses from heat/etc -> fewer emissions