Inscrutable as ever, the Chinese pay plenty of lip service to unreliable wind and solar, but it’s coal and nuclear that are really powering the Middle Kingdom.
China’s investment in new coal and nuclear power plants absolutely dwarfs spending on intermittent wind and solar. Indeed, as Dr John Constable details below, the pace of investment in coal and nuclear power and China is positively staggering. And its growing thirst for oil appears to be thoroughly insatiable.
China’s Geostrategic Priorities Become Clear: Oil not Wind…
The Global Warming Policy Forum
John Constable
8 August 2020
China’s offshore wind installations for 2019 and its plans for the end of the decade are catching headlines. Less well reported, in the United Kingdom at least, is the vastly more significant evidence that China is acting firmly to reduce western influence in the Persian Gulf and thus secure Middle Eastern oil supplies on a scale…
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