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Text: Broken Boat Cold
Edited by Broken Boat Cold
preface
As the weather gets hotter and hotter, I believe everyone has seen words such as "high temperature that has been rare for many years" on the Internet, and in the face of hot weather, everyone's first choice is air conditioning and electric fans.
The important external force that drives them to refrigerate is the indispensable electricity in our daily life, after all, in addition to air conditioning fans, we also need to use mobile phones, computers and other electronic products.
In addition to bringing enough convenience to our lives, electricity has also greatly promoted the development of science and technology, and its development has also received widespread attention in the world.
The country's power generation highlights the process of national energy development, and some people will pull out China's power generation to compare with other countries, and surprisingly, in the top three of the world's power generation rankings, in addition to China and the United States, there is actually India.
At this time, some friends may be curious, how much power generation will each of these three countries have in 2023?
Shocking China
As a country with a huge population base, China consumes a huge amount of energy every day, which leads to the need to find more energy to meet the needs of the people.
In order to achieve this goal, researchers have come up with answers through continuous innovation and research, and various new energy sources have appeared in front of the world, such as the recent new energy research and development direction - thorium-based molten salt reactors.
Here, there is good news to share with you, at the end of last month, China was preparing to build the world's first thorium-based molten salt reactor, which is a new technology that can greatly meet China's energy needs.
However, the energy source for thorium-based molten salt reactors is nuclear energy, and although it is also a clean energy source, people are more cautious and vigilant about the use of this energy source due to the occurrence of nuclear leaks.
However, thorium-based molten salt reactors have shattered the conventional wisdom of nuclear energy, and it is considered a new type of infinite energy technology, and it is safer and more efficient than traditional nuclear energy.
However, such a technology that benefits the world's energy resources has not had significant results because of the early experiments, so other major powers have abandoned research on it.
What the world did not expect was that Chinese scientists did not stop their research on thorium.
Chinese scientists have finally achieved remarkable results through continuous research and experimentation, and according to their estimates, China's storage of thorium will be enough for the next 20,000 years without thinking about energy.
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It is also because of the continuous research of scientific researchers and the strong support of the state, looking at the world power generation ranking in 2023, China ranks first with a cliff-like high power generation, more than twice as high as the second place United States, with a power generation of 9,456.4 billion kilowatt hours.
At this moment, China announced to the world its status as an energy power with tangible data, which not only shows the vigorous development of China's energy industry, but also reflects China's ability to promote energy transition and develop green energy.
Some people may question China because of its huge population, for example, its per capita power generation may not rank among the top in the world, but when it is seen that China's per capita power generation has reached 6,700 kWh, which is much higher than that of some Western countries, the skeptical rhetoric has disappeared.
The rapid development of China's electric power has blocked those doubtful words, and under the continuous innovation and research of scientists, it has become a soaring dragon, and the second and third United States India will have what kind of performance in power generation?
U.S.-India power development
Our perspective will first focus on the second largest power generation United States, which is the world's largest power today, but it has only reached 4,494 billion kilowatt hours of power generation.
It's less than half of China's. However, due to its vast land area and relatively scarce people, the per capita power generation has reached 1,340.9 billion kilowatt hours, from which it is not difficult to see that the strength of the power still exists.
However, the energy situation faced by United States is even more severe, although it has vigorously developed nuclear power generation to meet domestic energy demand, but United States the current main way of power generation is thermal power generation, natural gas and coal still belong to the majority of United States power generation.
Relying on non-renewable resources is ultimately exhaustive, and the United States is destined to complete the transition to clean, renewable energy.
Of course, in addition to the energy transition, the United States also needs to solve the problem of aging power generation equipment.
United States is still using some of the power generation equipment from the 80s, which is either out of service or destroyed, affecting the generation and transmission of electricity.
For example, the 2021 power outage in Texas, United States, caused power outages for more than 4.5 million Texas residents, causing economic losses of up to $80 billion to $130 billion.
Most scholars attribute the accident to the weak transmission of natural gas and the power grid affected by cold weather, but due to the complexity of the old power grid, the United States is currently unable to fully update these facilities, so it can only sigh.
Of course, the national debt is also a major difficulty for United States, and according to statistics, the debt borrowed by United States is about equal to the total economic output of the five countries combined, including China and Germany.
United States face such a huge debt, it is difficult to invest enough money in energy development and grid maintenance in a short period of time.
Therefore, we can understand from these difficulties that the United States currently wants to solve these complex problems, which is by no means an overnight thing, and for the United States, the development of power energy has a long way to go.
Now we turn our perspective to India, which is half a world away from United States, and which has a completely different national situation from China and the United States.
In the public impression, India is slightly behind, at this time, some friends will wonder, how did it get to the third place?
In fact, if you look closely at the power generation and per capita power generation of China and United States, you can vaguely understand the reason why India has achieved such data - a huge population advantage.
According to statistics, India's power generation in 2023 will be 1,958.2 billion kWh, and its per capita power generation will reach 137.1 billion kWh, although the power generation ranks third in the world, but the per capita power generation is only higher than Indonesia, which ranks fourteenth.
What we need to know here is that India's power development is not stagnant, and it is inseparable from the rapid development of India's energy industry to rank third in the world, and India's power generation in 2023 has reached a 7% increase compared with India in 2022.
However, it should be noted that the current development of India's energy industry is slightly difficult, because the main power generation method they currently use is still similar to that of United States, which is more traditional thermal power generation, but India uses more coal energy.
As we mentioned earlier, coal is neither a renewable nor a clean energy source, because it is not only less efficient in generating electricity, but also causes more carbon emissions, which undoubtedly has a negative impact on global climate change.
At the same time, India's power line problem is also very serious, the huge population and overlapping living area, greatly increase the complexity of the power grid, which makes India want to carry out circuit repair is very troublesome.
In fact, from the current situation, India's power energy development is still in the rising stage, so we should report its future power development with anticipation.
Focus on China's new energy situation
Although China ranked first in terms of power generation in 2023, two decades ago, the demand for electricity was far greater than the supply of electricity, and places in relatively remote mountainous areas could not enjoy the convenience of electricity.
But now it is different, the state vigorously supports the development of energy and the development of the power industry, and there are hard-working power grid workers across the mountains and rivers to lead the power grid to every remote place, so that every people's home can be lit up with the light of hope.
Of course, in addition to the efforts of grassroots workers, the development of mainland power is also inseparable from the research and development of scientific researchers.
I believe that friends who are concerned have understood that in the press conference of the new energy situation in the first half of 2024 of the National Energy Administration, as the key to new energy, new energy storage is also developing steadily, and new batteries such as compressed air energy storage and flow battery energy storage will appear in the future.
In the first half of 2024, the investment in key energy projects has exceeded an astonishing 1.2 trillion yuan, which will drive the development of new energy in the mainland from energy investment and energy security.
Based on these factors, we can believe that the mainland is currently in a good state in the development of new energy, which is a strong fact that we have demonstrated the temperament of a great power in the world.
Future power development direction
Although the mainland has made great progress in the development of new energy, the direction of power development and the excavation of new energy are still problems for the mainland and the world.
For example, the thermal power generation currently used in most countries is far less than clean and renewable energy sources such as nuclear energy and wind power, and a large amount of carbon emissions is still an unavoidable topic for energy use.
However, although nuclear, wind and hydropower are in line with renewable and clean energy, their power supply is relatively small, the technical and equipment requirements are too high, and the cost is relatively large.
Therefore, without damaging the environment, it is still a difficult problem for countries around the world to find efficient and inexpensive new energy sources that reduce carbon emissions.
However, we should believe that with the rapid development of science and technology, new energy that can solve all our problems will surely appear.
epilogue
Although we have made a simple comparison of the power generation of China, the United States and India, we need to understand that the national conditions of each country are different, and development that adapts to national conditions is the best development.
Therefore, we should understand the difficulties of the power development results of other countries, look forward to their development, and hope that the world's energy development can jointly achieve great and progressive results.
Resources
On June 26, 2024, International Power Network published a report on "China, the United States, and India in the top three! The 2023 world power generation ranking is released! ".
On July 31, 2024, the power grid reported on "The National Energy Administration held a press conference to release the energy situation in the first half of the year".