So, you guys think China might try to increase coal production or that they're more likely to try and import coal now that they've cut off Korea's supply?
Isn't china supposed to be a huge producer of solar power?
If this were true, people over their wouldn't all be wearing face masks to try and avoid having their lungs make contact with the incredibly toxic/caustic air. Seriously, a majority of the pollution here in the US/Canada drifts over from China, it's their leading export which they provide free of charge delivered via the jetstream and assorted ocean breezes.
It's only the last couple of years they made a big push towards solar, nowhere near enough to undo decades(or more) of heavy pollution though.
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/02/12/china-is-now-the-worlds-largest-producer-of-solar-power/
Assuming it's somewhat accurate, the disparity between China and the next country down on that list is more the problem with solar doing anything for them. In theory, they can produce like 4,000 MW more than Germany per year. Unfortunately they require 5,386,800,000 MW more power per year as well.
Nuclear or thorium solutions are the only thing that come to mind to really alleviate their coal dependency. As it turns out, the numbers indicate that despite their energy policies attempting to focus more on these types of things, China just doesn't have the proper technology for efficient nuclear generation just yet.
So for now, the Rand corp is probably right about how things will eventually look:
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1244/MR1244.ch2.pdf
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