[nebula8804]

Wish we had the level of renewables in the West that China has. Their pricing is supposedly now 7-11 cents per kwH (as opposed to 20-30 cents kwh average in the states). This would further enable usage of all computing instead of tossing it into eWaste. Who cares how much power old equipment uses, host something on it until the chips literally burn out. Every Wii and other console that has homebrew should be running something....anything.

The US is not lacking of space to store this stuff but is tossing so much precious resources into the trash because they are not economically justifiable power wise.

[crimsonnoodle58]

I asked Claude to map Chinese electricity prices vs capacity (broken down by power plant type) from 1990 onwards and the only thing I see is a dip from 9c to 8c in residential pricing due to renewables oversaturating the grid. Otherwise it was linear, even as renewables were added. Industrial prices remained linear also.

So I would say its less renewables keeping the overall price cheap, and more the government subsidies and the sheer amount of electricity being generated by their Coal (1195), Nuclear (61), Gas (~200), Renewable mix.