Comments by "People Liberator" (@lvjinbin28) on "As U.S. Threatens BRICS To Only Use Dollars, China’s BAN Has Crippled US Semiconductors" video.

  1. 40% of the production cost of aluminum is electricity, and producing one ton of aluminum requires 13500 kWh of electricity. China is the world's largest producer of electrolytic aluminum, accounting for 58% of global aluminum production in 2021. At present, the annual electricity consumption of the entire industry exceeds 500 billion kilowatt hours, accounting for about 6.8% of the total electricity consumption in society, and the power consumption is huge. What is the concept of 500 billion kilowatt hours of electricity? In 2021, France's electricity generation was only 523.7 billion kilowatt hours, which means that the electricity consumed by China's aluminum production alone is equivalent to France's annual electricity consumption.
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