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But doesn’t China have the largest rollout of solar in the world?
by VohuMana 2mo ago
But doesn’t China have the largest rollout of solar in the world?
- Lerc 2mo agoI believe so, They have also increased their coal consumption. The #1 increase in world electricity demand is people rising out of poverty. China has been producing the most solar in the world and still hasn't been able to cover their own demand increase with it. Eventually that form of growth will slow down. Sustainability should always look at the second derivative.
- jahnu 2mo agoIt’s worth pointing out that already last year while China’s coal power capacity grew their actual power production from coal fell. Also need to reduce use of coal in steel production too, yet.
- dburkland 2mo agoMaybe we should be looking inward as to why solar isn't more easily deployable in the US. Local zoning, permitting, and community opposition are some of the top road blocks there...
- perpetuallunch 2mo agoSolar needs to address its dispatchability problem before it becomes viable as anything other than a vanity project. Australia is experiencing this problem now to a limited extent, and is walking in to a disaster scenario with the scheduled shutdown of 5 gigawatts of coal fired electricity generating across three sites over the next three years with nothing in the pipeline to replace that 5GW.
- TaLiTr 2mo agoSolar has a problem so it's a vanity project, but coal has a billion problems but it doesn't matter because you can adjust the output? Like it genuinely sounds like you're suggesting our current terrible system shouldn't even be attempted to be improved unless there's a magic perfect solution to replace it.