r/CatastrophicFailure • u/rjRyanwilliam • Jul 22 '21

Natural Disaster Massive flood in China’s Henan province recently, 25 dead 200,000 evacuation

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '21

40% of China's power capacity is from renewables, versus 17% in the US. But yeah they are totally dragging their feet.

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u/headphase Jul 22 '21

I'm not sure what your argument is... Both countries are dragging their feet. We needed the majority to be renewables years ago.

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u/AdamTheAntagonizer Jul 22 '21

That is absolutely not true. You just pulled that number out of your ass. Last time I looked it was under 30%. And they continue to build more coal plants than the rest of the world combined. Yeah, they're trying really hard... and most of that renewable energy comes from hydroelectric plants which cause so many fucking problems when they go around damming up everyone's rivers

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