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@simsa03 the current estimations of the IAE and others of Material Extraction shifting to Renewable Energy appear to be lower than nothing changes and oil, gas and coal is extracted as current even under raising energy demand. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435123000016

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/minerals-for-electricity

And moving machine and industry from fossil fuel to electricity brings in a higher efficiency of energy usage (I found estimations of 20-40%).

China has industrial efforts to get some circularity into action, but language barrier and the general underreporting on industrial policy and application does not help in understanding better whats happening in areas like retrofit or reuse of stuff. India I do not know.