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Solar energy is going to power the world much sooner than you think

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Casey Handmer on the energy transition

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solar energy has powered the world for a much longer-time than we have existed. the world has had a longer time to get it not wrong than we have.

Aye

It's perpetual motion

Glad to see it's cracking along but there hasn't been much decline in fossil fuel use yet https://ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuels

The sodium ion battery developments are promising.

Your plots, which go all the way from 1800 to 2024, do show a massive massive leveling out of fossil fuels in the last decade, however. When going through a surge in energy demand, old resources usually don't get retired very quickly. For example, with gas in the US, there was something like 5GW of new gas expected to be added in the US, and 1.6GW of old plants retired. But that's all dwarfed by the amount of storage and solar going in.

nope. we need over 50% efficiency with 30+ years guaranteed lifespan. we have 20% efficiency with at most 10 years with continual maintenance.

Solar installers are low quality, expensive, destroy the roof, and existing utility companies will make you pay to grid tie. you wont save money.

the only time solar is worth it is a non grid tie DIY setup.

I think the article is more about commercial solar farms rather than rooftop.

Wrong! Oil-rich countries have every incentive to not let it happen, and that is exactly what they have been doing. For example, “but the Uighers” is a propaganda tactic (among others) developed by the current oil countries as an attack to the Chinese solar industry.

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