in case you needed some good news today

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• applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  damn solar looks like its on a real exponential. at this rate it will pass coal in another decade. maybe we’ll have some version of a solar punk future after all.

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• foresterr@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not that good. I prefer looking at the energy mix graphs based on absolute numbers, not relative ones. Energy production overall can keep rising sharply, thanks to renewables, but fossil share and carbon going up in air are maybe flattening at best. If you squint.

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• graphene@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Save me solar

  Solar

  Solar save me

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• CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Thank You. I did.

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• fireweed@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Unfortunately hydropower is its own flavor of environmental destruction.

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• msage@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Do I remember correctly that hydro is going to fall sharply thanks to changes in rain patterns?

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• Rothe@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  All of it gobbled up by AI data centers.

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• Sneq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Hydropower raises on the first screen but declines on the second??

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  • Kind_to_Everyone@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yes, on the first screen it is an absolute total. On the second it is a percentage share.

    So if something is growing, but slower than the growth of the rest, its share is declining.

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    • Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Meaning coal and other fossils are also still increasing in absolute numbers.

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    • Sneq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Ok, thanks

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• kudra@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  while this kind of growth in renewables makes me hopeful, the total cost of build out is what concerns me, especially as solar has a lifetime of only 10-20 years. I feel like that cost in energy terms needs to be taken into account…

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  • FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    www.ecoticias.com/en/…/26007/#google_vignette

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  • Zorg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Getting solar & a big battery in a couple weeks, the panels come with a 30 year warrenty and guarantee they will still produce at least 87% by then.

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  • VibeSurgeon@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Luckily, both solar panels and batteries are lasting far longer than initially expected, making their already superb economics even better. They were already expected to pay off within their assumed lifetimes, to be clear, so any additional years you are able to wring out of them are pure profit.

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    • kudra@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      maybe I should have only mentioned total cost of build-out then. It is good to know that they are generally lasting much longer than their warranty, and of course we keep seeing increase in efficiencies so that older panels really are only a trickle compared to new anyway. What is truly worrying is Jevons Paradox.

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  • Hoimo@ani.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Valid point, but solar got much cheaper to make in the last 10 years and production capacity has increased a lot. Even recycling broken solar panels is fairly economical, because the components are so easy to melt down and separate out. So yes, we’re currently gaining solar capacity a lot because we haven’t hit the phase of upkeep and replacement yet, but we can go a lot higher before upkeep becomes an actual problem.

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