China's heat wave leads to record-breaking production of electricity

[NickB79]

A major Chinese power generator says its electricity production has reached a record high as the country grapples with a punishing heat wave.

China Energy Investment Corporation, one of the world’s largest generators of coal-fired power, says the volume of electricity it produced on Monday had hit a daily record.

The state-owned company recorded total electricity generation of 4.09 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) on that day, an increase of 210 million kWh from the day before, according to a statement on Tuesday.

Burning coal like crazy to beat the climate-change-induced heatwave 🤦

The increase in consumer AC appears to be offsetting a large portion of the gains in renewables to date.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Can you say 'a vicious death spiral', children?

I knew you could!

[NNadir]

2. What are the "gains" in so called "renewable energy?"

The unit to describe the putative "gains" would be a unit of energy, as in Joules or Exajoules; for example, in 2021 world energy demand was 624 Exajoules.

I've been hearing for decades how so called "renewable energy" would save the world. I've heard how allegedly "cheap" it is. How come China, like Germany, is burning coal then?

Saying that so called "renewable energy" can't meet demands of air conditioning would seem to suggest that after all this talk the need for air conditioning is rising and therefore the "gains" were useless in addressing climate change. It's a hamster wheel, isn't it?

I might be time to think about stuff that works as opposed to chanting in defiance of real numbers about "gains."

[Finishline42]

3. From the above quoted article

Currently, the country is on track to double its wind and solar energy capacity and hit its 2030 clean energy targets as soon as five years earlier, a June report has found.

The economy is expected to produce 1,200 gigawatts of solar and wind power by 2025 if all prospective plants are built and commissioned, according to the study from nonprofit Global Energy Monitor.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/12/energy/china-power-heat-wave-intl-hnk/index.html

[NNadir]

4. I'm familiar with the spin of our " but her emails" media on...

...so called "renewable energy."

I'm also familiar with a credulous public that buys into the crap that the purpose of so called "renewable energy" was ever about climate change.

It never was.

It was always mostly about attacking nuclear energy, hence the illiterate use of the unit "watts" to describe systems with capacity utilization of well less than 30% as comparable to nuclear power plants with capacity utilization of better than 90%.

Apologists for this disgusting indifference to climate change still substitute "capacity" for "energy."

A simple Google will show that about 10% of world electricity goes to air conditioning. Most of that demand is in late afternoon and early evening.

So, out with it, has the trillions spent on solar and wind addressed climate change. It surely achieved its real goal, demonizing nuclear energy.

In Europe in 2003, a paper in Comptes Rendues indicated that there were 40,000 deaths from an extreme heat event. Now these are breaking out all over the world.

So how about it? In the 70 years of commercial nuclear power, can the "nuclear demonization" that sold us climate change with solar and wind snake oil, can any of the "I'm not an antinuke" antinukes here report 40,000 deaths associated with radiation from nuclear power plants?

Is climate change no longer a problem?

I mean antinukes in Germany must think so, since they shut climate change gas free infrastructure because solar and wind were so great. What a wonderful luxury!!!

As I, if not everyone here am concerned with CO2 releases and climate change, the Germans and the assholes with whom they're allied, disgust me.