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the one that sticks with me is China's installing more solar panel capacity in 2023 alone than the US has ever.
EDIT: China added more solar panels in 2023 than US did in its entire history | Carbon Brief
Its authoritarian to improve the world
Those solar panels were installed right on top of peaceful demonstrators in Tinman Square
, I can't believe I know "progressives" who still like herMassive China W
It's not just ethical, it's smart. Non-renewables are a ticking time bomb, and investment in solar is going to pay off many times over in the long run.
but what about the quarterly profits???
Long run? Okay tankie. Go ride your light rail to your ghost city in some desert
Libs will ignore this and point to all the coal China is also building, ignoring that most of that coal is just backup and supplement while they continue to ramp up and improve the stability of their renewables.
It's not just backup, it's for developing areas that haven't got the right material conditions to transition to green energy. Liberals don't realize China is still a developing nation (or rather think the Chinese are inferior to them) so they assume they're building coal because they're malicious, and not like, developing.
they also have extremely high energy demands due to all the manufacturing that occurs in China, which then gets exported as goods to the West
Tons of the pollution and energy consumption in China is actually the West's consumption, just offset geographically
And even including the manufacturing, per capita the Chinese pollute less than Americans lol
Buht aht whut cohst
Per capita, (excluding rest of EU), that's still twice as much, so still a big China W.
There was a hilarious story on one of the local bay area news stations the other day about "THE LARGEST SOLAR PROJECT COMPLETED" with no further qualifiers as to where and over what time period they meant. They showed some aerial footage of it, and it's basically some solar panels in an area less than the size of a football field. Apparently in the California that's a pretty big deal.
If only they'd look past their own noses to see what China has been up to in the past 20 years.
Apparently in the California that's a pretty big deal
It's not even a big deal in California. Not too long ago I saw the big solar farm out near Blythe, coming back from a trip to Arizona. It's not even the largest one in the state, and it sounds like it dwarfs the one they're talking about.
Apparently California is pretty far progressed on its track to renewable energy?
What's shown on the image is california electricity generation in ~~April~~ May 20, 2024 (But the data is representative for all of April as well). Yellow is solar, red line is demand.
I don't have the source rn, I only have this screenshot stored on my phone.
I think the source is pv-magazine-usa.com?
Germany: 15 GW installed 2023
USA: 25 GW installed 2023
the US really is pathetic, you're telling me we couldn't even double the total installations of a country with what, like 5x less people, 6x lower GDP, and 40x less land? seems like the general increase hasn't even changed from trump's presidency either, are biden and a blue senate even pretending to improve things at this point?
are biden and a blue senate even pretending to improve things at this point?
Yes they're pretending, and almost half of that farce of a country is pretending along with them.
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I basically look to them as the largest of a handful of non-unserious countries
But at what cost?
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