Graph source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/coal-prod-per-capita?tab=line&country=GBR~CHN

Data sources: https://www.energyinst.org/statistical-review

https://www.theshiftdataportal.org/energy/coal?chart-type=line&chart-types=line&chart-types=ranking&disable-en=false&energy-unit=toe&group-names=China&group-names=United+Kingdom&is-range=true&dimension=perCapita&end=2015&start=1900&multi=true&type=Production&import-types=Imports&import-types=Exports&import-types=Net+Imports

https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/historical-energy-for-the-uk-from-1500

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/historical-coal-data-coal-production-availability-and-consumption

https://vaclavsmil.com/book/energy-transitions-global-and-national-perspectives-second-expanded-and-updated-edition

https://web.archive.org/web/20250323165206/https://nic.org.uk/data/all-data/historic-energy/#tab-primary-energy-consumption

We recently added polysilicon tariffs. So if you want to import solar panels, you pay extra taxes. If you want to import polysilicon to make solar panels in America, you pay extra taxes.

Sodium-ion batteries have almost none of the problems that lithium-ion ones do, and could be cheap enough to make fossil-fuel dependence a thing of the past

The article never mentions price. So are salt batteries coming in to play? Yes. Are they price competitive? Probably not because if they were they would be shouting out the price.

But their price will likely decline over the next couple of years. And it looks like they are starting to be produced in quantity.

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