Two key turning points were passed in the 2022-24 period
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Two key turning points were passed in the 2022-24 period:
1. The USA now has more jobs in renewable energy than coal/oil/gas. (Which means lobbying muscle that wasn't there a decade ago.)
2. PV roll-out worldwide is rising fast: we install as many solar panels in five days now as were installed in the whole of 2004, and the rate is doubling every 18 months or so.
The petrochemical industry wouldn't be panicking and lobbying this hard if they weren't in mortal peril!
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@iinavpov I'm also readying a bowl of popcorn for the inevitable fireworks when Trump tries to ban EVs (which he hates) after putting Dilbert Stark in charge of "right-sizing" the US government. If Musk isn't completely brain dead I can see the EPA's budget unaccountably tripling for some reason …
Fascist regimes are ALWAYS about internal empire-building and Trump is about to hand Musk a huge and powerful fiefdom. This might just backfire on BOTH of them.
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@cstross See here for the stats: https://toot.berlin/@sbi/112235865952642075
Apparently, PV grows faster than all the other electricity producers combined. -
Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:replied to Charlie Stross last edited by
@cstross We need a Moore's law for #Renewables.
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The Penguin of Evilreplied to Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: last edited by
@jwildeboer @cstross Something approaching 75% reduction in cost per watt in ten years. Not quite comparable to microprocessors but huge by most industrial standards.
What also astounds me is how global it is - the numbers from places like Pakistan are just mind boggling
