Comrade Trump is out here reducing global emissions and bolstering chinese electrotech in one fell swoop. TRUST THE PLAN
is the military operating a net reduction? usually militaries doing anything is a colossal disaster environmentally
All the oil that isn’t getting extracted, processed, or shipped out of the Persian Gulf is oil that isn’t getting burned. Even blowing up oil storage ultimately reduces emissions, because all that oil gets burned exactly once (which is what would have happened to it anyway) and then the tanks are unusable, which means less (or no) oil will ultimately pass through them to get burned afterwards.
Even blowing up oil storage ultimately reduces emissions, because all that oil gets burned exactly once (which is what would have happened to it anyway)
this might not be true, there’s no catalytic converter on a random oil fire. remediation will never make fossil fuels “clean” but they do cut back on… iirc NO₂ and some of the sulfur compounds
Fair, but my understanding was that those pollutants are highly toxic but not major contributors to global warming which I (perhaps mistakenly) view as a more relevant topic.
Yeah the US military is the world’s largest polluter by a pretty wide margin.
I think in terms of CO2 emissions there is a net reduction though.
we’ll be erecting statues of his likeness in the future out of appreciation over how much of an impact he’s had over stopping climate change. lol
future generations will know him as the orange-green man. lol
erecting statues
this motherfucker hates wind turbines and he is getting a statue and I dont?Dukat did nothing wrong! Lol
68 gigawatts exported in March 2026
I’m not an electricity generation understander, so I wasn’t sure just how much 68 GW was, so for reference I looked up the capacity of Olkiluoto 3 (the most powerful currently operating nuclear plant in Finland) and it’s apparently 1,6 GW. Am I understand this correctly that China exported the equivalent of like 40 olkiluoto 3s in March alone??? That’s fucking eye watering, holy moly
You got it. For further context:
Finland’s entire energy generating capacity is ~20GW.
France’s is ~155GW
USA’s is ~1200GW
China’s is ~3400GW
it in one of the liu cunxin short stories where he writes about the solar panel farmer in space, who then agrees to create and pilot a solar sail to probe the furthest reaches of the galaxy? I may be misremembering two separate stories. But in any case. Uh. Yes
I literally made a joke earlier into the war that china’s over capacity production of solar panels was under capacity after all
That’s what happens when your economy is governed by a party that can see past quarterly profit margins.
