China’s remarkable contribution to the clean energy movement

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China’s remarkable contribution to the clean energy movement was highlighted in a new chart by Jostein Hauge of Cambridge University in the UK, released last night.

“China now manufactures 89% of the world’s solar panels, 70% of the world’s wind turbines, 83% of the world’s batteries, and 75% of the world’s electric vehicles — all at a lower cost than the West,” he said.

After posting the chart on X, he received the usual hostile comments that China still uses coal.

The simple response to that is that every major economy still uses coal – the question is whether they are following targets to ween themselves off it and create alternative energy sources.

China, clearly, is.

Other countries? Well, some have spotty records, while others are going in reverse.

People concerned about the future of the environment will recall the works of Rachel Carson, a scientist-author credited with triggering the start of widespread awareness of these issues, with a 1961 book called Silent Spring.

The movement she inspired grew in the west in the 1960s, and is now global. Everyone has now heard of the need to move to cleaner energy.

But some do a lot of talking, while others actually make the switch.