It’s really all up to China now, to build and sell as many EVs, batteries, and solar panels as they can. They have to crowd out fossil energy usage globally as a global clean energy manufacturing powerhouse.
aziaziazi•8mo ago
They might have/choose to create batterie big enough to retrofit their diesel-electric haul truck first, to start at the beginning of the batteries supply chain. Not wanting to sound defeatist but that's not the easiest part.
Wow that’s interesting indeed. Thanks for the links.
metalman•8mo ago
nothing can protect that which no longer exists, which we are most definitly on track in the case of the northern polar ice cover.
https://nsidc.org/sea-ice-today
edit: the article linked in the title of this thread, mentions the effects of ocean warming causing equatorial ocean expansion effects, and as a first for me, that the reduced polar ice caps are reducing gravitaional pull that is changing ocean currents. it's bad when....right
melling•8mo ago
https://www.iea.org/news/global-coal-demand-is-set-to-platea...
toomuchtodo•8mo ago
aziaziazi•8mo ago
toomuchtodo•8mo ago
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/half-chinas-heavy-tr...
https://electrek.co/2025/05/18/autonomous-electric-haul-truc...
I cannot overstate how much battery manufacturing capacity China is building.
https://about.bnef.com/blog/china-already-makes-as-many-batt...
aziaziazi•8mo ago