{"id":29494,"date":"2018-01-07T11:40:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T16:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29494"},"modified":"2018-01-07T11:40:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T16:40:19","slug":"here-is-whats-holding-back-chinas-plans-for-world-domination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29494","title":{"rendered":"Here is what\u2019s holding back China\u2019s plans for world domination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-headline\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/joannenova.com.au\/2018\/01\/here-is-whats-holding-back-chinas-plans-for-world-domination\/#more-56763\">Here is what\u2019s holding back China\u2019s plans for world domination<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<p>Australia may be the worlds largest <em>exporter<\/em> of coal, sending out <a href=\"https:\/\/industry.gov.au\/resource\/Mining\/AustralianMineralCommodities\/Documents\/Australias-major-export-commodities-coal-fact-sheet.pdf\">388 million tons in 2015<\/a>, but <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_countries_by_coal_production\">China\u2019s production of coal<\/a> the same year was 3,747 million tons \u2014 nearly ten times as much, and nearly half of global coal production. But the Chinese coal boom is turning. David Archibald describes the geopolitical ramifications. For me, the next question is what stops China doing nukes?\u00a0 \u00a0 \u2014 Jo<\/p>\n<p>PS: There is a rumor that Australia has only 4-5 days of fuel stocks today, and is especially low on aviation fuel. Anyone with info, please comment or email joanne AT this site.<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is what\u2019s holding back China\u2019s plans for world domination<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"pull\"><p>One of the reasons that China produces the world\u2019s cheapest solar panels, for example, is because it has some of the world\u2019s cheapest coal-fired power<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"firstletter\">T<\/span>here is no doubt that China wants to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscc.gov\/Annual_Reports\/2017-annual-report\">subjugate Asia<\/a>, echoing Japan\u2019s role during World War II.\u00a0 For those who think China\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/for_the_umpteenth_time_china_will_not_overtake_the_united_states_economically.html\">economy<\/a>\u00a0might overtake the United States economy, and thus make China a more formidable adversary, this article aims to provide detail on China\u2019s main constraint in that ambition: t<em>hat its domestic coal production is near its peak and will then go into long-term decline.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Even if China can keep its energy supply constant with an accelerated expansion of its nuclear power sector, the cost of producing coal from deeper mines will mean that the costs of industrial production will rise due to higher feedstock costs. \u00a0One of the reasons that China produces the world\u2019s cheapest solar panels, for example, is because it has some of the world\u2019s cheapest coal-fired power. \u00a0German solar panel-producers are hobbled by that country\u2019s\u00a0<em>energiewende<\/em>, which, translated from the German, means the miracle required to replace coal and nuclear power with sunbeams and breezes and still have a functioning economy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is what\u2019s holding back China\u2019s plans for world domination Australia may be the worlds largest exporter of coal, sending out 388 million tons in 2015, but China\u2019s production of coal the same year was 3,747 million tons \u2014 nearly ten times as much, and nearly half of global coal production. But the Chinese coal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[130,147,14389,328,424,17815,579,588],"class_list":["post-29494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-china","tag-coal","tag-david-archibald","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-industrial-production","tag-jonova","tag-nuclear-power","tag-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29496,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29494\/revisions\/29496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}