China hits 1 TW solar milestone

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• Fortatech@gregtech.eu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Solaris 🎉🎉

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• Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The most interesting thing is the growth

  China reached its first 1 GW of installed solar in 2010

  10 GW by mid-2013.

  By June 2017, total installed capacity exceeded 100 GW

  China has reached 1 TW of installed solar mid 2025

  Got chatgpt to plot and to extrapolate

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  • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why wouldn’t it just stay a linear graph?

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Look at the left side of the first graph. It’s set on an exponential scale.

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    • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t understand. What do you mean?

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• FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a vibe seeing solar panels cover those iconic Southern China valleys

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  • Szewek@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The hill in the photo looks ugly, tbh. Still, much better (and livelier) than the landscape after oilsands or brown coal extraction.

    Preferably, most grid-connected solar panels would be on buildings, deserts, and postindustrial land. But in the face of the climate catastrophe, the South China hills are also fine.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t think it looks ugly at all…

      I was just thinking about how much of a nightmare it would be to keep them all clean.

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    • Szewek@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean - one thing ugly, and the other thing is that this land could be arable or a nature reserve.

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  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Seriously. Is that a real photo? I’ve never seen a solar farm covering hills like that.

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    • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      When I look closely it seems real, there’s all the construction tracks, but the solar panels themselves look fake in this resolution. It would help if they had added a few close-ups in the article.

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• Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They need it to run all those garish lights all over every building in the cities.

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  • FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah but at least those garish lights are all LEDs these days with energy usage a fraction of what it would’ve been in times gone by

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    • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fair point, but there’s so many more of them.

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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Still building new coal plants at an increasing rate. Still increasing co2 emissions year on year. Still not commiting to reduced emissions. Nice green washing though.

  Thats just co2 emissions, their other environmental damage stats are as bad if not worse.

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  • hark@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Being the country with the most solar power generation by far is not “green washing”. For being the world’s factory, they’re doing quite well and it’s obvious from trajectory that they’re going to be among the greenest countries overall, including those countries that have externalized their pollution to China by using them as their factory.

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    • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why do they get to continue to pollute while everyone else has to ramp down?

      Carbon reduction goals only work when everyone is working towards them. Otherwise we are just making our manufacturing more expensive while China out competes us with their 0 environmental regulations

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  • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    China hit peak coal already.

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    • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t know where you heard that but its wrong.

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• pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not surprised! PV cells are cheaper than plywood these days.

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