But at what cost?
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?
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Not having to worry about falling through the cracks, or where the next meal is coming from, or what will happen to me if I get sick. The biggest worry is that the country with the world’s biggest nuclear arsenal, and the only country to ever use one, wants to solve its economic problems by destroying my economy.
This is what I tell boomers: Millennials and younger in the west have never lived to see lives around them significantly improve or even get richer. I’m promised capitalism is at least as bad as a “boom and bust” cycle but after over three decades, I’m not far from half my life expectancy, and I’m still waiting on seeing what a boom or a general increase in living standards looks like.
The constant successes of China are the only thing that have given me anything even resembling hope since Bernie lost in 2016, and then briefly again when there was that 3 week period where all the polls said he’d sweep the 2020 election (you know, before super Tuesday when everyone but Warren dropped out and endorsed Biden but Warren was all OHHHH I DUNNOOOOOO)
nobody needs to tell me the ways Bernie sucks, I already know
I swear, I’m stuck in podunk Ohio and everything feels almost exactly the same as it did in the 2000s, except everything got uglier.
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 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?
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.
