"Your editorial "The Coming Electricity Crisis" (Review & Outlook, March 29) warns of a looming North American power shortage amid growing demand for power driven by artificial intelligence and by government subsidies for manufacturing and electric vehicles. It adds that our climate agenda exacerbates this by mandating or encouraging closure of dispatchable, fossil-fuel-fired power plants faster than our ability to reliably replace them with renewables.
While the climate agenda puts North American grids under greater risk, it has been making China's more secure. Western policies have helped China expand fossil-fuel-fired power generation and the very carbon emissions that force us to retire our fossil-fuel-fired generation.
This arrangement has enabled the comparatively cheap energy that has been the critical driver of China's economic growth, while punishing our energy efficiency that has steadily increased since the aftermath of the 1970s oil crises and reduced our energy demand per unit of GDP. To add insult to injury, this has allowed China to subsidize and commandeer the renewables-generating equipment supply to the world, and to prepare to do the same in the supply of electric vehicles.
The climate agenda has made us willing enablers of what has turned out to be China's single greatest and most successful strategic gambit.
Robert Blohm
Fort Erie, Ontario" [1]
We, the West, are the biggest polluters per capita in the world. We started heating up the Earth before China industrialized. Now, when China is starting to clean out our mess, we are balking. What about that?
China understands
that before storage of electricity is developed, you need a dependable
power source (coal, oil, gas) for covering the intervals when sun
doesn't shine and wind doesn't blow. We, the West, are exploding our gas pipelines. We are ready to go. Where?
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/does-it-matter-how-much-united-states-reduces-its-carbon-dioxide-emissions
1. The Climate Agenda Is a Win for the Chinese. Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y.. 06 Apr 2024: A.12.
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