China's 15th Five-Year Plan, and the coal question, on Just Have a Think
Dave Borlace's only upload of the week runs through renewables, grids, storage and recycling to 2030, and it drew more than 200,000 views in its first day.
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How China’s Next Five Years Will Transform Global Energy Generation
On an ordinary day, Just Have a Think draws something under 70,000 views. Right now the channel is running at more than three times that, and nearly all of the lift comes from a single video.
"How China's Next Five Years Will Transform Global Energy Generation" was Dave Borlace's only upload of the week. It works through China's new Five-Year Plan, the country's blueprint through 2030, with its big targets for renewables, grid building, storage and resource recycling. The description frames the real question this way: with coal still built deep into China's energy system, will all this clean power finally start pushing fossil fuels out? As usual, he backs it with a long reading list, from Carbon Brief and Ember to Chatham House and Human Rights Watch.
The comment section went where China videos tend to go. Many of the most liked notes contrast long-range planning with Western short-termism, and one Irish viewer brings up a children's hospital that has been under construction for more than a decade.
Behind it, two September videos are still drawing steady interest. In "Godzilla El Niño is about to hit the Arctic. How bad will it be?" Dave brings in polar climate scientist Ella Gilbert, known on YouTube as Dr Gilbz, to explain what a Super El Niño could do to a rapidly warming Arctic. "The Solar Railway That Could Solve a Much Bigger Problem." looks at panels laid between Swiss railway tracks and solar noise barriers along South Korean motorways.
Among science channels close to his size, Simon Clark is also running above his usual pace, and Cosmoknowledge is holding steady. Konstantin's channel is far quieter than normal. For Just Have a Think, a single deep dive into a Chinese policy document was enough to turn the week.
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The videos drawing views on Just Have a Think right now
- Channel
- Just Have a Think
- Subscribers
- 746,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 583,206
- Videos published this week
- 1
- Video published
- October 4, 2026
- Video views so far
- 272,441
- Views on its first day
- 215,768
The numbers
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