American Politics

[MarquisdeSade1]

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/202...ariffs-report/

All Praise and Glory goes to Mein MAGA Fuhrer.

[EihTooms]

Is this this best you've got?? WoW Have you no sense of decency? The US is back and will be the ONLY Superpower again and you and your fellow vile American HATING Trump haters.

Are lost, you've got nothing but the lamest memes I've ever seen I think a 5 yr old could do better, I think your lame efforts to gaslight everyone here just keep getting lamer and lamer.

You and Spidy should hang up your keyboards and give it up, the jig is up, Globalism is as dead as dead gets WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP to all you ANTI American Scumbags, I wish you ADIEU.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...close-seconds/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...-populism.html

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...al-immigrants/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...n-polling.html

Oh, do you like reading about polls again?

Here are a couple of stories for you. One to read to long-time China benefactor, President Musk and one to read to his assistant, Putin & Xi Ass-Kisser Trump.

The first story is called, The Boys Who Were Touched By Trump.

The second story is called, After Just Two Months, The RCP Trump Job Approval Poll Concensus That Even Rasmussen Could Not Save.

See screenshots below:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/

[HotDog666]

Why do you expect Westerners to care more about the lives of russian soldiers than the russian leaders and people do themselves?

Here's an crazy idea; if you don't want to die, don't start a war against your peaceful neighbors.

The same goes for the palestinians; their leaders even publicly talked about how the blood of palestinians had to be flooding the streets to "improve" support for their "cause".

I'm genuinely scared after seeing what's going on in the palestinian Territories; little children are being taught to murder Israelis and even their mothers, which should be protecting their children!, are openly saying to their little sons that they will grow up to become martyrs.

It truly is horrific. In gaza suicide bombers are celebrated and their parents are proud!

The fact that you actually say and believe all of this in the wake of the massacre of tens of thousands of Palestinians by the Israelis shows the extent of your depravity, wickedness and hypocrisy of people like you.

"Peaceful Neighbors". What a sick comment. What a shameless sick excuse of a man you are.

[MarquisdeSade1]

It's hard to argue with a MAGA over just how fervently determined he and his fellow MAGAs were to Turn America Into Shit And Then Kill It.

So I am perfectly happy to go with your personal MAGA expertise and insight and say ALL 77.3 Million direct Trump voters and a few stray Third Party voters did so in order to give Trump the means to touch America a 2nd time and really make sure he Turns It To Shit Before he Kills It.

Is this this best you've got?? WoW Have you no sense of decency? The US is back and will be the ONLY Superpower again and you and your fellow vile American HATING Trump haters.

Are lost, you've got nothing but the lamest memes I've ever seen I think a 5 yr old could do better, I think your lame efforts to gaslight everyone here just keep getting lamer and lamer.

You and Spidy should hang up your keyboards and give it up, the jig is up, Globalism is as dead as dead gets WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP to all you ANTI American Scumbags, I wish you ADIEU.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...close-seconds/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...-populism.html

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...al-immigrants/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...n-polling.html

[MarquisdeSade1]

Opinion.

Ross Douthat.

It's About Ideology, Not Oligarchy.

March 22,2025, 7:00 am ET.

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Ross Douthat.

By Ross Douthat.

Opinion Columnist.

The Democrats, casting about for an anti-Trump narrative, have found a word: "oligarchy. " It was part of Joe Biden's farewell address; it's central to Senator Bernie Sanders's barnstorming; it shows up in the advice given by ex-Obama hands. It aspires to fold together President Trump's self-enrichment, Elon Musk's outsize influence, the image of Silicon Valley big shots at the inauguration with a familiar Democratic criticism of the G. O. P. As the party of the superrich.

I don't want to pass premature judgment on its rhetorical effectiveness. But as a narrative for actually understanding the second Trump administration, the language of "oligarchy" obscures more than it reveals. It suggests a vision of Trumpism in which billionaires and big corporations are calling the shots. And certainly, the promise of some familiar Republican agenda items like deregulation and business tax cuts fits that script.

But where Trump's most disruptive and controversial policies are concerned, much of what one might call the American oligarchy is indifferent, skeptical or fiercely opposed.

Start with the crusade against wokeness and the. E. I. , a fight spreading beyond the federal bureaucracy to everything (state policymaking, university hiring) influenced by federal funding. Is this a central oligarchic agenda item? Not exactly. Sure, some corporate honchos were weary of activist demands and welcomed the rightward shift. But before the revolts that began with politicians like Ron DeSantis and activists like Christopher Rufo, the corporate oligarchy was an ally or agent of the Great Awokening, either accepting new progressivism's strictures as the price of doing business or actively encouraging the. E. I. As both a managerial and a commercial strategy.

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Capital, in other words, is flexible. It can be woke or unwoke, depending on the prevailing winds, and it will adapt again if anti-the. E. I. Sentiment goes away.

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Next, consider Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency, with its frantic quest to slash contracts, grants and head counts at government agencies. Is this oligarchy? No doubt some corporations stand ready to fill spaces left open by the public-sector retreat. But the American corporate sector as a whole is deeply enmeshed with governmental contracting, heavily invested in public-private partnerships, accustomed to cozy lobbying relationships and eager to take advantage of government largess.

So there is no deep corporate investment in reducing head count at random federal agencies, and there is plenty of corporate angst about what DOGE might mean for the specific kinds of private-sector power that have metastasized all around Washington.

And even with Musk himself, the first oligarch: For all the ways he might use his access to game the system, the immediate effect of his crusade has been to undermine Tesla, his most important company, and substantially diminish his (yes, still world-beating) net worth. (The risks to his position if and when Republicans lose power are even more considerable.) So we should take him at least somewhat seriously when he talks like a libertarian or debt-crisis true believer; he's putting his net worth in the service of those ideas rather than just leveraging power to increase his wealth.

Finally, populist ideas rather than oligarchic self-interest are clearly the motivating factor behind Trump's highest-risk move, the great tariff experiment. Of course, there is a tycoon who stands to benefit from protectionism out there somewhere, but the generalization still holds: When it comes to the lords of the American economy, nobody wants this.

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The people who do want it are the right's version of the critics of neoliberalism who influenced Biden's administration: outsider intellectuals and dissenting members of officialdom who see themselves as champions of downscale constituencies ill served by a globalized system designed to benefit investors, corporations and billionaires. There are all kinds of ways in which Trump has failed to follow through on populist promises, but the vision of a new trade order is populism in its truest form; it rejects a consensus shared by academic experts and the upper class, and it promises long-term benefits for the working man in exchange for short-term pain for rich investors.

As such, it can't really be attacked coherently along the lines favored by Sanders or any left-wing Democrat. It's not a giveaway to Trump's biggest donors. (They hate it.) It's not a sop to the Wall Street players. (They're against it.) It's not an intensification of neoliberal capitalism but a rejection of its premises.

Instead, the opportunity it offers Democrats, like the opportunity that Biden's attempt at postneoliberalism offered Republicans, is contingent on its actual economic effects. A future where the economy sputters even as Muskian cuts lead to foul-ups with popular government programs offers Democrats the clearest path back to power. But they won't be leading a revolution against the oligarchy; they'll be promising a restoration.

More on political economy.

[Elvis 2008]

So yeah, while S+W+B and other renewables have there downsides, they will always be "better" and cleaner, than fossil fuels at converting energy into usable electricity.
Striving for "better", when the fossil fuel bar is set so low, is NEVER hard goal to achieve!

No, solar / wind / battery are not better than fossil fuels. They are not as energy dense as fossil fuels like gasoline and natural gas. Obviously, you generate no power when the sun is down, and the wind is not blowing, and there is already a limit on how many Lithium ion batteries can be manufactured because of limits on Lithium production.

Then you have the problem of overproduction of electricity with solar, https://www.newsweek.com/california-...ake-it-1995346.

California is producing so much clean energy using solar farms that it sometimes has to pay utilities in other states to take some of it away.

The news comes in a LOS Angeles Times report which also says in the past 12 months California has forgone enough solar energy to power 518,000 homes for a year (three million megawatt-hours), due to supply exceeding demand and an inability to store the surplus.

When California's solar farms produce a surplus which battery storage cannot handle, to prevent grid overload, the state exports power. This is frequently sold at below the market rate, essentially subsidized by California energy consumers, and at times other states have to be paid to take surplus electricity if they have no demand for it.

According to a CAISO report, in 2022 California sold surplus electricity cheaply to the Public Service Company of New Mexico, which said it saved $34 million through the scheme, along with PacifiCorp, Avista Corp. And Tacoma Power.

When asked how much California had paid for utility companies to take its surplus electricity CAISO official Guillermo Bautista-Alderete replied: "We don't track that number specifically. ".

LOL. Of course not.

And then there is the kicker:

However California's power grid has at times struggled with extreme heat in the state, and in September 2022 the state was forced to deploy temporary gas-fired power plants to prevent supplies running out according to Bloomberg.

This summarizes alternative energy issues. There is too much when you do not need it and too little when you do.

The way around this is with better battery technology, and I do not think what we have is good enough to go as hog wild on alternative energy as we have in many places. EVs can serve many markets today but the PHEVs and ICE make way more sense if you are going long distances in driving.

The key is the battery then and there is progress being made in battery technology. This is a video on sodium anode technology and being produced by a NBC network of course they had to give a shout out to Biden: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj0siYi4h0o.

A buddy of mine swears that Tijuana Rogers, who is not a liberal, and Enovix are going to lead in that space. They already have produced batteries everyone wants. They have not done it at scale yet.

Sodium anode batteries for an EV can be 80% charged in 6 minutes. That is where things get interesting and is competition for ICE vehicles.

The issue when you go ga-ga over a new technology is what happened in California. If sodium anode batteries can be made at scale, the whole game with EVs and alternative energy could change, but it is simplistic and foolish to say alternative energy "is better" than fossil fuels.

[Elvis 2008]

Tiny 12, not sure how or why the likes of Elvis 2008, has bamboozled you, into this somewhat flawed nonsensical line of thinking, w/r to "perfect is the enemy of good", but Elvis 2008, should know "better" than to present such binary thinking, by implying the only choice, is between "perfect" and "good".

First of all, other than you guys, who said anything about "perfection"? Who said anything about striving for "perfection", other than Elvis 2008, interjecting "perfection" into the argument?

Your logic is flawed, for the simple fact that, you guys always rocket, straight to "perfection" from "good", with your binary thinking, while overlooking "better" and "best" (among others) as available options, to a more suitable incremental approach or middle ground, way before anyone logically arrives at "perfection".

So yeah, while S+W+B and other renewables have there downsides, they will always be "better" and cleaner, than fossil fuels at converting energy into usable electricity.

Striving for "better", when the fossil fuel bar is set so low, is NEVER hard goal to achieve!

Tiny 12, not sure how or why the likes of Elvis 2008, has bamboozled you, into this somewhat flawed nonsensical line of thinking, w/r to "perfect is the enemy of good", but Elvis 2008, should know "better" than to present such binary thinking, by implying the only choice, is between "perfect" and "good".

First of all, other than you guys, who said anything about "perfection"? Who said anything about striving for "perfection", other than Elvis 2008, interjecting "perfection" into the argument?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfec..._enemy_of_good

In the English-speaking world the aphorism is commonly attributed to Voltaire, who quoted an Italian proverb in his Questions "Il meglio è l'inimico del bene".

It sounds like someone needs to redo high school English. LOL.

In your binary world, it is China good and the USA bad. When it to dirty air, China ranks as 21st worst in the world. The USA? #116.

https://www.iqair.com/us/world-most-polluted-countries

And part of being a Democratic douche is playing the never mind game. Oh, we love EVs but now we hate Elon Musk. I have enclosed the perfect meme for you never mind Democrats.

[EihTooms]

I think your meme is extremely funny, I'm sure it won him millions of votes LMFAO
If you are a retarded NYT gay crippled poodle you shouldn't take a bite at the Rottweiler.

When it bites your fucking head off because most, and espec me are going to ROTFLMMFAO.

It's hard to argue with a MAGA over just how fervently determined he and his fellow MAGAs were to Turn America Into Shit And Then Kill It.

So I am perfectly happy to go with your personal MAGA expertise and insight and say ALL 77.3 Million direct Trump voters and a few stray Third Party voters did so in order to give Trump the means to touch America a 2nd time and really make sure he Turns It To Shit Before he Kills It.

[Sirioja]

Trump is complicit hand in glove in the zionist genocide of women and children in Gaza, and he is turning a blind eye to Ukraine too, which will shortly become two blind eyes.

The zionist tail wags the American dog.

The zionists are pursuing bloody genocide and ethnic cleansing.

America has fallen. I do fear a civil war in America.

Trump is a senile schizophrene non stop bullshiting, thinking all what he wants will happen, like if he was single on our planet. Just a stupid guy for no brained low level USA. Really no MAGA, but big shame. Enjoy inflation, recession and lost jobs in down USA.

[HotDog666]

Netanyahou and Putin kill many women and children and Trump knows this and let keeping on. Also criminal. Shameful not MAGA USA.

Trump is complicit hand in glove in the zionist genocide of women and children in Gaza, and he is turning a blind eye to Ukraine too, which will shortly become two blind eyes.

The zionist tail wags the American dog.

The zionists are pursuing bloody genocide and ethnic cleansing.

America has fallen. I do fear a civil war in America.

[Spidy]

... And remember Spidy, perfect is the enemy of good!

Tiny 12, not sure how or why the likes of Elvis 2008, has bamboozled you, into this somewhat flawed nonsensical line of thinking, w/r to "perfect is the enemy of good", but Elvis 2008, should know "better" than to present such binary thinking, by implying the only choice, is between "perfect" and "good".

First of all, other than you guys, who said anything about "perfection"? Who said anything about striving for "perfection", other than Elvis 2008, interjecting "perfection" into the argument?

Your logic is flawed, for the simple fact that, you guys always rocket, straight to "perfection" from "good", with your binary thinking, while overlooking "better" and "best" (among others) as available options, to a more suitable incremental approach or middle ground, way before anyone logically arrives at "perfection".

So yeah, while S+W+B and other renewables have there downsides, they will always be "better" and cleaner, than fossil fuels at converting energy into usable electricity.

Striving for "better", when the fossil fuel bar is set so low, is NEVER hard goal to achieve!

[Spidy]

China started construction of 94.5 GW of coal power capacity in 2024, the most in 10 years! For comparison, Mexico's total electric generation capacity from all sources, including nuclear, renewables, coal and gas, is 86 GW. France's is 144 GW. And how about that 1 GW offshore PV capacity you mentioned that China's installing? Well, if it's enough to power 2. 67 million homes in China, that means the coal plants that just started construction in 2024 will be enough to power 252 million homes!

https://www.carbonbrief.org/chinas-c...ce=chatgpt.com

Also, China approved 66.7 GW of new coal-fired capacity in 2024, which will start construction in future years.

https://energyandcleanair.org/public...rgy-in-china/?

Hey, I'm okay with China, continuing to use coal, in the short term. They are using what they have in abundance. The U.S. and much of Europe, have been burning coal for decades and still haven't yet gotten off coal entirely. So it wouldn't surprise me, if China shutdown and/or shuttered all their coal power plants, before the U.S. and many other western countries.

Many conflicting reports, on whether China has put the brakes on coal permits and have seen peeked coal production. Just back in Aug 2024, reports were China had halted new permits https://www.reuters.com/business/ene...ys-2024-08-21/ and some have them reaching peek coal in 2025 https://www.france24.com/en/live-new...in-2025-report.

Even though your article is more recent, and China appears to be ramping up coal again, to me it doesn't matter as long as it's done in parallel, to China offsetting coal, with twice the amount of renewables, it all good IMHO, because this ramp up is only short term. Still, China is on pace and should meet their carbon emission goals by 2030 and 2050. Question is, will the U.S.?

Too bad China doesn't have abundant natural gas like the USA does. If so it could have used clean burning natural gas to generate reliable baseload power instead of coal. And the air over Chinese cities would be even cleaner than it is now!

Nah, who needs dirty natural gas, when even your MAGA Fuhrer, has reservations, doubts and perhaps thinks, it's just dirty smelly gas. Yeah, natural gas must be so dirty, your MAGA Fuhrer, vowed to bring back, "...beautiful clean coal" (...kkkk!)

Trump vows to immediately ramp up U.S. production of beautiful, clean coal, Mar 18, 2025
https://www.latimes.com/environment/...ful-clean-coal

Maybe that's why China is ramping up coal again? They heard it was "...beautiful clean coal",(...kkkk!)

But yes, China is adding renewable capacity even faster than coal plants! It's a cheap and a cleaner source of power, as long as the wind's blowing and the sun's shining.

Thanks for stating the obvious, but try not to trip yourself up, on the "Primary Energy Fallacy", the oil and gas industry would have you believe, is needed, when it comes to replacing the true "usable energy" needed with renewables. Renewables will always be 3 to 5 times more efficient than fossil fuels, in converting energy into usable electricity.

Just like South Australia (SA), I believe China will cover the buildout of their grid, with enough HVDC/HVAC, S+W+B and an increasing amount of pumped hydro, and one or two costly nuclear reactors, thrown in for good measure. (Note: Reactors for China not SA). And like SA, the coal power plants in China will decrease, plateau and decline, as more cheaper renewables come online to replace them, as many observers have predicted, judging by China's maga-projects success rate.

So tell me Tiny 12, how many MAGA suckers, will fall for the Fuhrer's "...beautiful clean coal", this time?

[ShooBree]

*When Arabs or Christians die, well, they are just a "Palestinian" or orc. When a Jewish person dies in war, OMG, the world must come to an end.

You got it wrong, Elvis. When Palestinians (muslims or Christians) die they are just "Arabs", When Russian soldiers die they are Orcs. When you criticise Israel you are an anti-semite because. Because. The Americans State department says so. This is how fucked up this guy's thinking is. But he is thinking along the same lines as many of the zionist hypocrites who run America also think.

Why do you expect Westerners to care more about the lives of russian soldiers than the russian leaders and people do themselves?

Here's an crazy idea; if you don't want to die, don't start a war against your peaceful neighbors.

The same goes for the palestinians; their leaders even publicly talked about how the blood of palestinians had to be flooding the streets to "improve" support for their "cause".

I'm genuinely scared after seeing what's going on in the palestinian Territories; little children are being taught to murder Israelis and even their mothers, which should be protecting their children!, are openly saying to their little sons that they will grow up to become martyrs.

It truly is horrific. In gaza suicide bombers are celebrated and their parents are proud!

[Tiny 12]

And now, you will know the truth Spidy, and the truth shall set you free! Too bad the Biden administration tried to stop permitting of LNG plants, which would have marginally decreased worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, while providing jobs and income to Americans. And remember Spidy, perfect is the enemy of good!

Excerpts from.

The Biden LNG Pause Deception
Now we learn that the Granholm DOE buried a study that it didnt want Americans to read.

The Energy Department on Wednesday approved the Venture Global CP2 liquefied natural gas export project that became a cri de coeur for climate activists. Good call. Meantime, we are learning more about how the Biden team deceived Americans about its 2024 LNG export "pause. ".

President Biden, prodded by climate adviser John Podesta, announced a supposedly temporary suspension of LNG project approvals in January of the election year. The stated purpose was so Energy could do a study to determine if increased exports are in the "public interest. " It turns out that DOE career staff had already completed such a study by autumn 2023.

A draft of that study, which was shared with us, shows that increased USA LNG exports would have negligible effects on domestic prices while modestly reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. The latter is largely because USA LNG exports would displace coal in power production and gas exports from other countries such as Russia.

"The majority of the additional USA Natural gas substitutes for other global sources of natural gas," the study notes. "Global and USA GHG emissions do not change appreciably" across various scenarios that DOE staff modeled.

The study projected that, even assuming countries meet their net-zero pledges, global natural gas consumption would grow through 2050. This is notable because the climate lobby claims building more LNG projects would result in "stranded assets" as countries wean themselves off fossil fuels.

The climate lobby also says more LNG exports will increase USA Energy costs. But the study forecast that wholesale gas prices in the USA Would rise less than in the "study DOE commissioned on the economic impacts from USA LNG exports in 2018. " Residential gas prices would increase by a mere 4% by 2050.

DOE staff and lawyers rigorously reviewed the models and findings because these conclusions "are going to receive a lot of scrutiny" and we "need to be able to explain why the model shows reduced emissions," as one commented in the study's margins. Another recommended "full tabulated results in an Excel workbook be made available to provide transparency to the public. ".

That isn't what the Biden crowd wanted to hear. They shelved the staff study and imposed their "pause" to motivate progressives during last year's election. In December, Biden Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm released a different study, which purported to show that "unfettered" LNG exports would increase global emissions and domestic gas prices.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/biden-ln...ditorials_pos3

[Tiny 12]

Whether MAGA cultists are too blind, too numb, too dense, or too busy reveling in the lawless carnage, to see their own rights and freedoms, being trampled on, by their American Fuhrer, hellbent on dividing the country, instead of uniting it, is all just political cannon fodder, for Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, as the spectacle of fake American leadership and democracy, cannibalizing itself under it's loony MAGA Fuhrer.

Oblivious, ignorant and gleefully cheering for the plight and suffering of their fellow Americans, as they gleefully witness, the methodical unraveling of American democracy, under a leader whose Project 2025 playbook reeks of demagogic authoritarian tyranny. Meanwhile...

China's Green Energy buildouts == 5 nuclear reactors a week:

The expansion of green energy continues at a record pace in China, and is showing the world, they are on pace to meet their greenhouse emissions goals.

Last year (2024), solar and wind power equivalent to approximately 320 nuclear reactors were installed, March 16 2025 https://swedenherald.com/article/chi...clear-reactors

China is consolidating its dominance in the green energy revolution, deploying solar, wind, and pumped hydropower, at a scale that dwarfs global competitors, adding more renewable capacity last year than the rest of the world combined, all at a staggering pace, equivalent to 5 reactors a week.

China is kicking ass and revolutionizing their country!

PS: And what is the U.S. doing? Arhhh...yes, let me guess, "drill baby, drill!" and dismantling democracy!

(...kkkk!) If you just took a minute from your MAGA Fuhrer's "drill baby drill" and Breitbart propaganda, and properly read what was written, you'll see those are the very impressive 320 nuclear reactor equivalents worth of solar, wind and BESS, China installed, just in the last year alone.

You do understand what the difference is and what is meant by an "equivalent", RIGHT?

BTW, the U.S. has the most operational nuclear reactors on the planet, with 96.

So MDS1, it would seems you're the one who better get to steppin', then runnin' and then haul some "Fukashima-ASS", the hell outta here! (...kkkk!)

Worlds largest offshore solar project with 1 GW power now operational in China
https://interestingengineering.com/e...t?group=test_b

China has achieved a milestone in renewable energy with the connection of its first 1-gigawatt offshore photovoltaic (PV) project to the power grid. The project is expected to generate enough electricity to power 2.67 million homes in China.

I wonder how much "drill baby drilling" and "...beautiful clean coal" digging, the U.S. would have to do, to power 2.67 million homes?

We shall see what the sales numbers for Tesla, in the month of March and April reveal for sales in Europe and the rest of the world. It should be very interesting and should tell us, whether or not, the sentiment really is "shameful".

Tracking global data on electric vehicles
https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales

Once Again as ICE sales plummet, in the biggest car markets around the world, good luck to the German, Japanese and U.S. auto manufacturers, if they choose to keep making V8/12's and go on ignoring the global vehicle sales trends. China's electric car sales grew in 2024 as sales of gasoline cars plunged. https://apnews.com/article/china-aut...dd0dd9e78c2abb

China started construction of 94.5 GW of coal power capacity in 2024, the most in 10 years! For comparison, Mexico's total electric generation capacity from all sources, including nuclear, renewables, coal and gas, is 86 GW. France's is 144 GW. And how about that 1 GW offshore PV capacity you mentioned that China's installing? Well, if it's enough to power 2. 67 million homes in China, that means the coal plants that just started construction in 2024 will be enough to power 252 million homes!

https://www.carbonbrief.org/chinas-c...ce=chatgpt.com

Also, China approved 66.7 GW of new coal-fired capacity in 2024, which will start construction in future years.

https://energyandcleanair.org/public...rgy-in-china/?

Too bad China doesn't have abundant natural gas like the USA does. If so it could have used clean burning natural gas to generate reliable baseload power instead of coal. And the air over Chinese cities would be even cleaner than it is now!

But yes, China is adding renewable capacity even faster than coal plants! It's a cheap and a cleaner source of power, as long as the wind's blowing and the sun's shining.

I've got a great idea Spidy. Since you believe the air is cleaner in China than many USA Cities, and since you're extremely intrigued by EV's and renewables, how about moving to the country that's dominating the development of these technologies! Go West young man! Here's something to get you started.

https://en.nia.gov.cn/n147423/n14747...1/content.html

I'd be willing to chip in and pay for a one way ticket (economy class) to Beijing!