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primejanus t1_izbtybk wrote

Reply to comment by Lure852 in Global energy crisis is turbocharging an "extraordinary" boom in renewable energy so vast it could yet "keep alive the possibility of limiting global warming to 1.5C". by HYPERHERPADERP_

I'm pretty sure China has invested a lot into renewables but found they couldn't meet the energy demand so they built a bunch of new coal plants as well

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Lure852 t1_izbuyb9 wrote

Yes but instead of building a ton of useless buildings that they later blew up, or the various empty cities with no purpose, they could have gone even bigger on renewables.

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