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This is not even a competition anymore.

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[-] Robin@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

It'd also be interesting to know how many GW worth of non-renewable energy generation is decommissioned every year.

[-] Oneser@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

Little to none so far. This might change in the future, but not that quickly.

The additional renewable capacity added year on year is not enough to cover the additional electrical load, which originates mainly from 2 things: transport/infrastructure (including EVs, data centres, AI) & environmental loads (more heatwaves in populated cities, where people then need to cool).

As far as I understood, 2024 was a substantial year for the environmental side of the equation, otherwise additional renewables installations would have been able to cover just about all the additional power load.

Source: https://www.energyinst.org/statistical-review

[-] Genius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

So if we'd have started building renewables a couple years sooner, we'd already be fixing the problem and it would be cheaper, but because we waited, we have to pay more?

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Don't forget ~~data centers~~ spy warehouses.

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

Fossil fuels isn't just power. There's also transportation, chemical synthesis, and heavy industry. The good news is that if you incentivize heavy industry they will actually switch. What has been happening was that heavy industry was shielded from CO2 taxes because they used so much fossil fuel.

[-] bappity@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

transportation is a massive one. London is a grimy stinky mess of a place from the massive amount of car exhaust.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

The fact that literally any of the new power capacity isn't renewable energy is very bad.

[-] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Is there a breakdown per country?

Edit: I was looking for a graph but it was in the conclusion

New renewable energy capacity was dominated by China, with the country accounting for almost 64% of global capacity additions. (What would the industry do without China?) Together, G7 countries accounted for 14.3% of new capacity, while G20 countries accounted for 90.3% of new capacity (of course, 64% coming from China, as already mentioned).

[-] oo1@lemmings.world -1 points 1 month ago

Yeah.

China does hydro too - which is the best by far. In the west we're far to precious about landowners.

We have a whole area in my country called the lake district used for nothing but tourism and a few sheep, and lots of godawful poetry. (plus maybe one coppermine).

We really need to make it live up to it's name, flood the whole thing into one giant lake and run the worlds largest hydro off it. Stop pissing around with piddly little windmills, and putting solar panels over perfectly good arable land in s country where we have a lot of cloud cover.

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