Growth in electricity generation over the last 25 years: China 🇨🇳 : 6,000%, USA 🇺🇸: 0%

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by wakeup2019

12 comments

  1. Lol. What is this supposed to prove? China has 4X the population of the US. And energy efficiency is about using less electricity, not more. And the US GDP is about a third larger than China’s.

  2. Per capita, the US still has ~2X the energy generation as China. This is even more puzzling considering there are 113 cities in China with populations > 1 million people and there are only 10 in the entirety of the US. Not to mention the industrial capacity of China. Why don’t they have more power?

  3. Go back a bit further and you’ll find a curve from 0 up to 4,000. Then project the curve for China.

    Then consider that we’re a mature economy and they aren’t. Then consider the difference in population. Consider other relevant factors. Else these graphs show nothing.

  4. And yet we burn methane as a waste product. The shale revolution brought the US back to a net exporter. NuScales SMR’s have passed regulatory approval and is awaiting its first build. No where else in the world has it as good as the Americas in food and energy production. America is going through the Mother of All CapEx deployments. Now will the Americas fortify refining and processing of materials? We’ll see.

  7. It’s telling when a graph produces such vitriolic comments

  10. It’s kind of cool to see the U.S. staying the same when population has grown by at least 30 million and we use a lot more electronics, air conditioning etc. must mean things are a lot more efficient.

  11. I think OP is either Chinese, or wants to be Chinese. A quick scroll through his post history is intriguing

  12. Too bad half the country is banning natural gas. To which natural gas has been scientifically proven to be the sole reason for carbon emission reduction over the last several years.

    Toshiba has a zero emission generator that takes up much less space and a lot more efficient than the millions and millions of acres needed for solar which loses all its power being transferred to the city.

    Currently, the world uses less than 2% of Earth’s landmass to produce current energy needs. At 100% renewable, we would require 50% of Earth’s landmass to produce current needs.

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