Communist China passes USA as #1 energy consumer/producer

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UPDATED: Sunday, August 23, 2026 21:39
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PIRATENEWS

Monday, July 19, 2010 5:03 PM

Wall Street Journal: China Passes U.S. as World's Biggest Energy Consumer
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703720504575376712353150
310.html

BTW Commie China owns the Wall Street Journal:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=wendi+deng

"As far as Chinese goes, I resented it."
-Adam Tudyk, Serenity DVD, The Making of Firefly
(censored by Youtube)

JONGSSTRAW

Monday, July 19, 2010 5:21 PM

I always get a kick out of that picture of Hannity in the hat. It's one of your most redeeming and enduring creations.

QUESTIONABLEQUESTIONALITY

Monday, July 19, 2010 5:25 PM

NOW THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS CAN GO AFTER CHINA AND GIVE US A BREAK...

PIRATENEWS

Monday, July 19, 2010 5:56 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
I always get a kick out of that picture of Hannity in the hat. It's one of your most redeeming and enduring creations.

Nope, that's a drunken Hannity wearing a lampshade.

NIKI2

Monday, July 19, 2010 8:38 PM

What the title says doesn't surprise me, we've been hearing that for a long time now. As to the rest, eh...

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
signing off

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, April 17, 2026 1:32 AM

A New Oil Shock Accelerates a Return to Nuclear Power
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/business/nuclear-energy-iran-war.ht
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6IXSTRINGJACK

Friday, April 17, 2026 7:05 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
A New Oil Shock Accelerates a Return to Nuclear Power
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/business/nuclear-energy-iran-war.ht
ml

Thank Christ.

The "Green" Agenda is dead and we're actually going to fix the energy problem instead of continuing to dump trillions of dollars into hobbyist bullshit.

Let's start in America by changing some laws so it's not prohibitively expensive to build a power plant.

Archive for the article to avoid paywall:

https://archive.ph/CqCer

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JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, July 29, 2026 6:22 PM

Finland builds the world's largest sand battery. Site can cheaply store energy for entire month. No "rare earths" or critical materials used. Estimated at $25/KWh

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/finland-sand-battery-renewable-energy-
storage.html

and one for the predictions thread....Elon Musk predicts that by July Aug 2026, China will have electricity output that is three times that of the United States

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, July 29, 2026 6:59 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Finland builds the world's largest sand battery. Site can cheaply store energy for entire month. No "rare earths" or critical materials used. Estimated at $25/KWh

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/finland-sand-battery-renewable-energy-
storage.html

This sounds like Theranos, or the Water Seer, or Solar Freakin' Roadways.

Don't count your sand grains until they dispatch.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Wednesday, July 29, 2026 7:01 PM

I don't see anything in your article about that $25/kWh.

What does that figure mean?

If that's the cost of the electricity to the consumer, it's a doomed project before it begins since it's about 100 times as expensive as almost all people in the US pay for electricity outside of maybe California.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, August 11, 2026 8:59 PM

and even helping Cuba's get off the world Oil Supply Grid

by doing this Iran Israel war nonsense, shutting down the World's Oil it seems Trump sent more people off to buy green windmills and solar from the Chinese

China Delivers Second 5,000-Solar-System Donation to Cuba Amid Energy Crisis
https://www.telesurenglish.net/china-delivers-second-5000%E2%80%91sola
r%E2%80%91system-donation-to-cuba-amid-energy-crisis/

Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I don't see anything in your article about that $25/kWh.

What does that figure mean?

Polar Night Energy's 100 MWh system can reach temperatures of 500°C and theoretically offers a cheaper alternative to lithium-ion batteries at around $25 USD per kilowatt-hour compared to lithium's $115 USD.
https://finance.biggo.com/news/202506180753_Finland_Sand_Battery_Cost_
Questions
But here's where things get murky. The company has received funding many times over what their own cost estimates would suggest for this 100 MWh unit.

JAYNEZTOWN

Sunday, August 23, 2026 9:39 PM

China’s Jiangsu province crosses 100 GW solar milestone
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/08/21/chinas-jiangsu-province-crosses
-100-gw-solar-milestone-as-distributed-pv-drives-growth/

Europe’s Great Rivers Are Dying. The Continent Is In for a Shock.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/opinion/europe-rivers-danube-rhine-
drought.html

Hungary to sink two barges near nuclear plant as river runs dry
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/danube-river-low-hunga
ry-nuclear-power-b3033182.html

Europe's energy transition is now an economic security race
https://www.reuters.com/commentary/reuters-open-interest/europes-energ
y-transition-is-now-an-economic-security-race-martin-vladimirov-2026-07-29/

Dry Danube River Threatens Nuclear Power in Romania, Hungary
https://en.tempo.co/read/2116625/dry-danube-river-threatens-nuclear-po
wer-in-romania-hungary