I look forward to an age where there’s so much distributed solar power that it’s not about building up infrastructure, but making cool patterns you can see from space.
The solar boom is rapidly transforming emerging economies
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UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
We’ve come full circle from drawing nazca lines 2000 years ago to what I hope is dick butt from space.
UpAndAtThem@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Perfect use case.
Lor@leminal.space 22 hours ago usa using solar to power data centers not net zero
The west is falling behind thanks to Trump and Carney.
sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
I don’t really think this comment is responsive to the article. Solar is getting built out everywhere (including in the US), and the baseline high energy consumption of the west obscures the smaller percentage based change while still representing a huge absolute change in energy source mix.
Seimhe@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
And Carney is being portrayed as sensible because he’s “not as bad” as Trump. Radical flanking in effect.
Especially with his cuts to Canadian Food Inspection Agency
saltesc@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
So not the West, just North America.
The rest of the West it’s been established for a while and/or surging. My house is solar powered with batteries. The grid is 100% powered by two solar farms, two wind farms, and one hydroplant. It’s weird seeing a house that doesn’t have solar panels covering its roof.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Dont blame others for american issues. Regressive losers. Carney beat the trump fan to create stronger ties.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
lol no, USA only. The EU is happily rebuilding the bridges to Europe, that the USA have burned.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 22 hours ago
*The West is falling behind thanks to fascists and neoliberals, Trump being an examples of the former and Carney the latter. You're letting off the Merzs and Macrons of the world too lightly.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
This is one of those things that no one realizes cause no one draws too much attention to it, but the US hasn’t been slacking on renewables in general - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_the_United_States - https://earthenergylog.com/articles/solar-power-statistics-us-2026
The thing is, developing countries will always see a bigger impact from newer technology because they are developing and so are building up base capacity. In the US we already have a lot of base load that already exists, so new power is to either increase overall load or to replace. Both of those things typically happen slower than new build out.