Michael Barnard
1 min readAug 28, 2023

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China's coal plants are running at 45% capacity factors and that's heading for a cliff given the country's rate of renewables deployment and full-economy electrification. Until this year, the USA's were running over 50%, it's deploying renewables (and nuclear) at a tiny fraction of China's rate, and it's rate of electrification is close to non-existent by comparison.

Elsewhere you say "For decades the issue of CO2 and global warming has been primarily a political weapon designed to generate controversy and partisan allegiance."

Yeah, no. For decades fossil fuel firms and their useful idiots have made it a political weapon.

You also make this absurd claim: "how can you not have noticed that Democrats, increasingly of the far-left variety, have already seized control of these sectors? Media, education, many corporations (via ESG), educators - educators! Where have you been? The entertainent industry, especially Hollywood? The radical left is dominant here already, today, right now!"

At least you are an equal opportunity useful idiot I guess. You're wrong about a lot of things.

I would strongly recommend you spending some time recognizing and acknowledging your deep biases, and then working to find external data and points of view that enable you to overcome them.

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/05/06/seeing-climate-solutions-clearly-through-biases-missing-data-is-challenging/

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Michael Barnard
Michael Barnard

Written by Michael Barnard

Climate futurist and advisor. Founder TFIE. Advisor FLIMAX. Podcast Redefining Energy - Tech.

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