10 pointsby JoiDegn2 hours ago3 comments
  • ZeroGravitasan hour ago
    Over a Petawatt-hour of Wind generation in 2025 using the latest stealth technology so that even someone with the all the technology and skills of the US military and intelligence communities at his command can't find even one of them.

    The Chinese tech truly is advanced.

  • simonjgreen2 hours ago
    This will be a dreadfully inconvenient stat for some narratives
  • metalmanan hour ago
    While China has succesfully been reducing there overall CO² emissions, one part of there high tech aorospace sector is dramaticly increasing emmisions burning methane.

    https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/02/china-showcases-new-mo...

    • ben_w5 minutes ago
      A dramatic factor within itself, not a dramatic quantity compared to everything else.

      I'm not sure exactly how much aviation fuel China burned in 2025, nor mass to orbit, but a quick search suggests that in 2024 they burned 38.2 million tonnes of aviation fuel[0], and launched 174.4 tonnes to orbit[1]. For the sake of a Fermi approximation, round that up to 40 MT aviation emissions and 200 tonnes to orbit, and assume a 20x factor of propellant CO2 emission mass to payload mass:

      200 * 20 = 4e3 tonnes of CO2 from space launches

      40e6 / 4e3 = 10,000 times more comes from aviation

      So, space could go up by a factor of 100x (compared to 2024) and still be a literal rounding error compared to just aviation.

      As per article, graph shows the nation as a whole is just over 12,000 million tonnes "from fossil fuels and cement".

      12e9 / 4e3 = 3,000,000

      If I download the image to get the full resolution, there's 586 pixels between the lines for 10,000 million and 12,000 million tonnes, so each pixel on that graph represents 2e9 / 586 ~= 3.4 million tonnes, and 3.4e6 / 4e3 = 850, so even if space launch grew by a factor of a thousand it would only shift that graph by one pixel.

      [0] Search for "38.2": https://www.greenairnews.com/?p=7427

      [1] Page 13: https://planet4589.org/space/papers/space24.1.0.pdf