China's Coal Fired EV Battery Plants
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China's Coal Fired EV Battery Plants
Burning coal for EV battery production, greenhouse gases be damned!
China dominates EV battery manufacturing worldwide with 77 % of capacity.
China produces and consumes almost as much coal as the rest of the world combined, and coal is the main energy source used to make batteries in China.
Solly Baby Greta !!
Researchers at Rice University have conveniently mapped out the EV plants (in blue) in close proximity to coal fired plants (gray)
Pollution from coal mining and burning coal are not in your backyard, so drive EVs guilt free. The little people got your back!
Not suprising given the wind resources in China are in the western provinces and the population and manfucaturing infrastructres are in the east. We can also review curtailments in 2021, the national average wind curtailment rate was 3.1% and the solar curtailment rate was 1.8%. This varies regionally, and while the overall renewable power consumption conditions have been improved in these provinces mainly due to the tight power supply and high coal cost in the second of 2021. Which will should reverse given the CCP commitment to energy security proven by the coal capicty increase, recorded coal production, & record coal import. Situation should revert back to the mean.
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Excellent post, things are linked together, to believe we can divide live into a clean section and a dirty one should be over after growing and finally leave the "kindergarten"