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moominpapatoday at 3:50 PM3 repliesview on HN

China has 1200 of them, no doubt they will follow Ireland's noble lead


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Nemo_bistoday at 4:54 PM

Well,

> The new analysis for Carbon Brief shows that electricity generation from coal in India fell by 3.0% year-on-year (46 terawatt hours, TWh) and in China by 1.6% (90TWh).

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coal-power-drops-in-chi...

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danny_codestoday at 4:46 PM

Seem to be on their way. Solar power is cheaper than coal now for some projects. In 10 years coal will be entirely obsolete. Though of course phase out will take longer

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henry2023today at 4:13 PM

What’s the alternative? Keep polluting the air?

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