China Fires Up Coal Power Plant Construction
May 1, 2020
By Paul Homewood
While Ambrose Evans-Pritchard prattles on about green new deals turbocharging economic recovery, China is sticking to what works:
China approved nearly 10 gigawatts (GW) of new coal-fired power generation capacity in this year’s first quarter, roughly equal to the amount approved for all of last year, amid a broader scramble to jumpstart an economic hobbled by the Covid-19 epidemic.
Investment in infrastructure like power generation has played an important part in China’s rapid economic rise, especially in times of economic distress like the global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. Many expect such spending to play an important role as Beijing tries to restart the economy in the aftermath of the coronavirus outbreak that has brought activity a crawl, leading the economy to post its first quarterly contraction since modern record keeping began.
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In comparison, UK coal-fired capacity was 12 GW at the end of 2018.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
At least China is keeping up with the promises they made in the Paris Agreement. More than can be said for other countries, huh?
again a reminder that for all the waste and expense involved in our chase for renewables, we are just p*ssing in the wind .
How are subsidised renewables projects supposed to ‘power’ an economy? Absurd.
Meanwhile attempts to improve road and air travel are bogged down in the UK courts.
I’d say that the expansion of air travel, will be on hold for some time now. Fancy spending a few hours breathing in the exhaled lung contents of a couple of hundred strangers?
Not relevant to this post, but a scientific article that may have slipped through unnoticed: A new study from University of Michigan climate researchers concludes that some of the latest-generation climate models may be overly sensitive to carbon dioxide increases and therefore project future warming that is unrealistically high:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200430113003.htm?fbclid=IwAR0TrXmmBfGcIbrGBA_icLEaB2RvX7lTSYHKw6eWHN4sjiIRHDGwf88CsGA
When you examine the IPCC reports and see that the assessment of radiant flux (RFF) increase was produced by a select committee (rather than physics), it is not surprising that the calculations show over-sensitivity. This web-site and many others have reported this for years, but the “policy makers” cannot / will not consider this.
China have the sense to ignore bad science…. as have Japan, USA,Russia, ……
Europe is the only continent dominated by semi-technical fools who believe in consensus science.
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Australia has a whole bunch of fools in charge too
0.85 K per doubling of CO2 tops. Half of all iatrogenic warming is due to CFCs, not CO2
“China approved nearly 10 gigawatts (GW) of new coal-fired power generation capacity in this year’s first quarter …”
Surely not, China was a signatory to Paris Agreement!
Back then, the sycophantic Beeb kept on-message by reminding readers:
“(China) is also the world’s biggest investor in green energy, spending more than $90bn in 2014 alone.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33286731
“China was a signatory to Paris Agreement!”
The use of the word agreement in this way and the word signatory implies a sheet of paper that contains a statement that all participants signed. but that is not what happened in paris. each participant was asked to write his own “intention” and sign it. so all those signatories signed different pieces of paper that said different things that they themselves had written independently. what’s more, they were not asked to write a commitment but to write an Intention. That is where the “i” comes from in “indc” and why the UN is now tripping over itself trying to hid the “i” or to pretend that it isn’t there. it should also be mentioned that the unfccc says that china is a “non-annex country” meaning that it has no emission reduction obligation under the unfccc. this means that the UN violated its own “convention” that it had signed along with the “parties” (parties are countries that signed the unfccc) when it accepted indc’s from non-annex countries.
the paris agreement is a joke
the UN is a joke
the whole of the climate movement is a joke
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/04/29/numnut-un-bureaucrat/
Thanks for that info.
Thanks for that interesting link
Can anyone see an analogy between German rearmament in the 1930s when she intended to rule the world and China’s industrial rearmament now when she intends to exercise her influence globally. And the rest of the world buries it’s head in the sand.
Could it be that the Chinese realise that climate change is a fiction to impoverish the West so now is the time to make their economy the world’s largest bytaking advantage of cheap, abundant and dependable energy. Its a win,win,win scenario for China and very dangerous for the Western powers and political freedom!
In hard times you fall back on what you know and what works. China seems to know that the RE bubble will pop and they maintained that illusion as long as it looked like good business for them. In the new post-COVID-19 world it does not pay any more to play pretend.
China expects to “flatten the curve” of CO2 as the year 2030 gets nearer, or not.
By building many facilities now, they may have a chance to do that.
Russia also.
https://www.minexforum.com/en/russia-eyes-big-plans-for-coal-production-and-exports/