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axismundi00 t1_iti1srr wrote

Such a dumb title and comparison. Would have been so much more meaningfull to provide a percent of China's coal production instead of just saying it could be "powering Norway". Norway is 99% renewable anyway, is just a fraction of China and has nothing to do with the whole thing to begin with.

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Properjob70 t1_itienns wrote

China basically decided to get going on offshore wind in 2021 and overtook the whole world's installed capacity in a year

There aren't all that many places where offshore wind in its current form can be placed as it needs shallow seas - hence the North & Irish Seas dominating installed capacity to date.

USA is looking to go big on floating wind farms which could put them in a race with China for installed capacity in coming years.

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feeltheslipstream t1_itk4n2j wrote

That's the kind of race that's just good news for everyone.

We should have these races more often. We've had really terrible ones.

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