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Last year China installed more solar capacity than the U. S. has in total [1]. Let that sink in. [1]: https://www.ecowatch.com/china-new-solar-capacity-2023.ht
by MaKey 2y ago
Last year China installed more solar capacity than the U. S. has in total [1]. Let that sink in.
[1]: https://www.ecowatch.com/china-new-solar-capacity-2023.html https://www.ecowatch.com/china-new-solar-capacity-2023.html
- akira2501 2y agoLast year China added 47.4GW of coal power capacity. Let _that_ sink in. We need to stop looking at "China" or "The US" or "Europe" as homogeneous entities.
- woodruffw 2y agoThe point wasn't that the US is winning in terms of net solar capacity, but that the US's own growth is independently admirable. China has and will continue to win in terms of absolute capacity, in a large part because they're still urbanizing, industrializing, and increasing their overall demand for power. (By contrast, US electricity use has been almost stagnant for 2 decades[1]. This informs the country's relationship with newer generation techniques.) [1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/201794/us-electricity-consumption-since-1975/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/201794/us-electricity-co...