By Paul Homewood
The China Energy Portal has now published statistics on power production in China last year, and it makes bad reading for anybody worried about CO2:
https://chinaenergyportal.org/en/2018-electricity-other-energy-statistics/
Thermal generation has increased by 7.2% year on year, totally dwarfing the increase from all other sources combined.
Thermal output, excl biomass, now accounts for 69% of all generation, with wind and solar only accounting for 8%:
New thermal generating capacity, amounting to 4% of existing capacity, has been added during the year.
Demand for power continues to inexorably rise in China, and, as we have seen in the past, renewable energy is not capable of meeting more than a tiny part of this extra demand.
Last year, for instance, wind and solar only supplied 22% of the extra demand.
We keep hearing that China's economic growth is slowing down, yet emissions of CO2 will surely show another big rise, when we get the data for 2018.
from Climate Change Skeptic Blogs via hj on Inoreader http://bit.ly/2DSVnmp
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