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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
I don't disagree, but China's energy growth is different from the west. China needs to provide light and heat to a developing population. The west for the most part has enough electricity except for natural growth while China is trying to catch up to living standards. Despite all the growth in wind and solar, it's not enough so here we are. We can tell them they can't while our living standards increase and theirs stay the same, but that seems a bit hypocritical
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Does China not have access to natural gas? Or not the expertise to build the infrastructure to use it?
From a quick read, looks like they have massive reserves, but either it is not possible to get it out, or they lack the expertise.
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China should be able to produce more than enough natural gas to meet its own needs.
China holds the world’s largest reserves of shale natural gas, according the US Energy Information Administration. However, much of that gas is considered recoverable only if cost were not a constraint.
Furthermore, the country is among the top 10 holders of proven natural gas reserves, gas that could be produced at current prices, at 5.4 trillion cubic metres, according to the most recent BP Statistical Review.
Together, China’s three biggest gas basins, the Ordos in northern China, the Tarim in the Xinjiang region in the west, and Sichuan province in the southwest, make up 90 per cent of the country’s output, but each of them are beset with geological or technological difficulties.
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https://www.scmp.com/news/china/poli...it-meet-demand
The natural trend is to go from heating oils, to coal, to natural gas / nuclear to renewables. To think that developing nations will somehow skip some of these steps is rather foolish. China is proving that despite massive investments in renewables, it is not possibly to meet energy demands without massive fossil fuel developments. That is why the idea that Canada should not develop our own natural gas resources and export it to the developing world, who would otherwise rely on coal is mind-blowingly short sighted. LNG from the west coast is already a proven money making asset. We should be going crazy building more output.