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Wind and solar generated 10% of global electricity for the first time

• ZeroGravitas 5y ago
  If you're vaguely positive about renewables, then graphs of solar/wind output and an understanding of how exponential growth works is cheering. Often solar and wind changes get lost in the hydro which is big, but fairly static, while solar and wind are growing rapidly from a very small base recently. Thinking about it terms of doublings is a key mental shift.
• aaron695 5y ago
• jer0me 5y ago
  It’s also heartening to see that California hit 99% a few days ago, though that’s far from the norm which is about 40-80%.
• hulitu 5y ago
  "Or again, the Times of the nineteenth of December had published the official forecasts of the output of various classes of consumption goods in the fourth quarter of 1983, which was also the sixth quarter of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. Today's issue contained a statement of the actual output, from which it appeared that the forecasts were in every instance grossly wrong. Winston's job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones." 1984