China’s Four-Year Energy Spree Has Eclipsed Entire US Power Grid

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-28/china-s-four-year-energy-spree-has-eclipsed-entire-us-power-grid?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2OTYwNzU1MSwiZXhwIjoxNzcwMjEyMzUxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUOTU4MVRUOU5KTFMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIyREEyNDA4NTE5NTk0QkFDOTkxOTUxOURFOTFCRDE2NiJ9.zbfU4Qee-mAMB5lmWAcmSotXYKWcSKfccpo5mOkVMW8

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einkorn@feddit.org · 4 pts · 227d (3 replies)

Oh, the posterchild of the "nuclear is the future" crowd added roughly 300 times more renewables than nuclear?

Luxyr@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 226d

There are 38 reactors currently in development in China, according to the world nuclear association, It is faster to build out solar and wind than nuclear.

whereIsTamara@lemmy.org · 1 pts · 227d (1 reply)

According to their own data, which would never be biased….

einkorn@feddit.org · 0 pts · 227d

Sure, as Churchill famously (didn't) say "I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself" but the trend is consistent even if the numbers might be not correct.