the one that sticks with me is China's installing more solar panel capacity in 2023 alone than the US has ever.
EDIT: China added more solar panels in 2023 than US did in its entire history | Carbon Brief
Those solar panels were installed right on top of peaceful demonstrators in Tinman Square
It must be so nice to live in China and feel like things are improving around you. I literally cannot even imagine what it feels like for your society to be on an upward trajectory.
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
Remember Warren not only refused to drop out, but made up some lie about Bernie being sexist to her. Such a fucking
, I can't believe I know "progressives" who still like her
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.
that's because you haven't bootstrapped your way into owning a jet ski dealership so that you can live the american dream
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.
it's the only thing keeping me going at this point, that there still exists places in the world where good things are possible
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.
Massive China W
It's not just ethical, it's smart. Non-renewables are a ticking time bomb, and investment in solar is going to pay off many times over in the long run.
Long run? Okay tankie. Go ride your light rail to your ghost city in some desert
Libs will ignore this and point to all the coal China is also building, ignoring that most of that coal is just backup and supplement while they continue to ramp up and improve the stability of their renewables.
It's not just backup, it's for developing areas that haven't got the right material conditions to transition to green energy. Liberals don't realize China is still a developing nation (or rather think the Chinese are inferior to them) so they assume they're building coal because they're malicious, and not like, developing.
they also have extremely high energy demands due to all the manufacturing that occurs in China, which then gets exported as goods to the West
Tons of the pollution and energy consumption in China is actually the West's consumption, just offset geographically
And even including the manufacturing, per capita the Chinese pollute less than Americans lol
Per capita, (excluding rest of EU), that's still twice as much, so still a big China W.
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 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.
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Apparently California is pretty far progressed on its track to renewable energy?
What's shown on the image is california electricity generation in
AprilMay 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.
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?
are biden and a blue senate even pretending to improve things at this point?
Yes they're pretending, and almost half of that farce of a country is pretending along with them.
I basically look to them as the largest of a handful of non-unserious countries
but what about the quarterly profits???
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