We Mean Business Coalition publishes electrification index naming rising 'electrostates'
1 Oct 31 · 8d ago · 1 article · 5 posts · 5 sources · development 1 of 1
New analysis across 16 countries maps deployment/market uptake of electric technologies against enabling policy conditions, finding policy running well ahead of market deployment (67% vs 45% median scores) and identifying China as the deployment leader while the US focuses on oil and gas.
“These decisions will define which countries emerge as electrostates, with the power to shape and control future economies.”
Jan Rosenow and Maria Mendiluce
Jan Rosenow Co-author of the Time analysisMaria Mendiluce Co-author of the Time analysisWe Mean Business Coalition Publisher of the Electrification Competitiveness IndexChina Subject of analysis — electrification leaderUnited States Subject of analysis — fossil fuel strategy
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first by Mastodon, 12d ago · also Time
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Recommended read: Researchers wrote in Time about how the “rise of electrostates could redraw the global economy”.
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Why do people keep assuming that we are in a transition ? We're not, at best some countries managed to offset some of their carbon emissions by de-industrialization elsewhere. Even Norway is heavily dependent on imports to maintain their infrastructures, with the pieces and materials being mined elsewhere with diesel heavy machines. Also, we're…
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Norway has been doing the same for about 100 years - nitrogen fertilizer with the Birkeland process and then aluminium smelting was and is quite important industries. The aluminium was effectively electricity export, and was selected because transmission lines had to be short and population in our main power producing regions were scarce - so an…
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The proof of the pudding is in the taste. If a state can legitimately bring down power prices by electrifying, they should have an economic advantage in manufacturing energy intensive exports of all sorts. It looks like China is heading in that direction with the most convincing posture.
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The way to invest is to spray and pray to select promising industries, same as with venture capital, not surprising they had many failures, as long as the success more than offsets it
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Sorry to come off so hostile. I mean we have no idea to what degree the decision was strategic vs. altruistic. But over a long enough time frame they become the same anyway.
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Leave idealism away. China betted on many technologies before, and failed spectacularly. Chinas Green Tech is in international demand, hence it grows at rapid pace.
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if there was no US the amount of coal fired plants since 2000 alone would be 0.1C warming+. this is absurd to look at when we are talking about the future.
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Success, as in they produce huge volumes, with really thin margins. Good for everyone.
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