Well the idea is that you grab brown people en masse and then scan them with the app. In fact the entire point of the app is to enable grabbing brown people en masse, so it's probably looking pretty good to Noem and the like.
The adjusted graph is a better reflection of "meeting their needs" than raw primary energy, since more than half of fossil primary energy is lost as waste heat.
The US has done well historically, roughly on par with China on per capita renewable rollout, slightly ahead of China between 2019-2023 but probably falling behind now.
China being so big and populous makes it hard to make simple comparisons.
edit: looked it up, US is still ahead of China as of 2024:
Bear in mind that pre 2000 is likely hydro, in the early years of solar and wind that confused matters if lumped in together but I think it's now obvious when the new tech kicks in.
People regularly talk about how much new coal capacity China has been building.
Quite often this is followed by "capacity, sure; they're not using all that capacity, those plants exist and are mostly not running", or some variation thereof. I've never bothered fact-checking the responses, but this conversation happens is most of the Chinese renewables discussions I've seen in the last few years.
He says his purpose with the flashy but vague reveal was to get attention by big OEMs. That's a path to money and therefore a reason to lie.
He made his original money selling his no code app to SAP.
So if you want to be skeptical I'd say there's plenty of reason to be skeptical. I don't see why any legit battery corp would need flashy demos and a motorcycle to give you money for serious battery tech. But you can probably get lots of money from someone desperate to get into batteries.
He also revolutionised AI with some really dodgy sounding claims last year:
They'll just blame those delays and cost overruns on greens or liberals.
Better to point out that in China the nuclear targets are many years behind and continually lowered while the renewable targets are met years early and raised.
Interesting story but the actual person credited with starting this potentially catastrophic diplomatic embarrassment is billionaire nepo baby Ronald Lauder:
> Nearly all the most impressive people I know are accidental moderates. ... But someone who works with ideas has to be independent-minded to do it well.
A shame he doesn't name names so we can check how many are openly fascist now that it is in vogue.
> The rational fear of those who dislike economic inequality is that the rich will convert their economic power into political power: that they'll tilt elections, or pay bribes for pardons, or buy up the news media to promote their views.
> I used to be able to claim that tech billionaires didn’t actually do this—that they just wanted to refine their gadgets. But unfortunately in the current administration we’ve seen all three
So possibly the third kind of moderate is someone who thinks they are moderate but are really just oblivious about plainly obvious consequences.
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