2y ago

China is forecasted to reach 1,000GW of installed solar capacity by 2026 (from 500GW today), which is pretty much equivalent to the total global solar power capacity today.

reneweconomy.com.au

China solar juggernaut hurtles towards 1,000GW of installed capacity by 2026

2y ago

reneweconomy.com.au /china-solar-juggernaut-hurtles-towards-1000gw-of-installed-capacity-by-2026/

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2y ago

China solar juggernaut hurtles towards 1,000GW of installed capacity by 2026

reneweconomy.com.au /china-solar-juggernaut-hurtles-towards-1000gw-of-installed-capacity-by-2026/

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I'm consistently impressed by Chinese timelines.
Every time I hear projections about America it's always "by 2030" or "by 2050" and shit like that - meanwhile, China is accomplishing more in less than half the time.
- Turns out that not selling your country out to powerful billionaires has its perks.
But at what cost?
- Less than it'll cost the US to put up a tenth of that 🤷‍♀️
Does 1TW not sound as impressive as 1000GW?
- weird units, both of them. how many football fields is it?
  
  I think it's about 69,420 London busses.
  
  How many dolphins end to end?
- I think you're misunderstanding to some degree. While silicon PV caps out at around 24% (I think up to 27% now), 100% conversion is basically impossible because of physics.
  Plus, the sun basically has infinite energy, so it's not like efficiency is that big of a concern compared to energy density.
- Solar isn't a solution for everything and that's precisely why China is pursuing a multi pronged approach for its transition off fossil fuels. China is actively developing wind power, geothermal, hydro, and nuclear on a massive scale. Each of these technologies has its own pros and cons, and they all work together.
Let's start using TW and TWh units then! https://g.co/bard/share/6726b69136a9
@yogthos All good and well to "forecast" things that make them look good. Currently they consume over half the worlds coal and only account for 1/3rd of the solar. They are the biggest climate change threat on the planet and they are doing nothing to change that. Infact the forecast increasing emissions until at least 2030.
- yes, the country that's actively reducing their fossil fuel use and have historically reached their stated goals with time to spare is surely the problem, never mind the massive pollution from the long-industrialized Western countries that have had many decades to stop using fossil fuels
  
  Also a lemmygrad user
- They account for like 80% of PV production. Basically all of that solar deployed in the rest of the world was built in China. For the fraction that isn't, it was probably built in Southeast Asia by a Chinese company.
  
  @zephyreks I don't under what is your point? They are allowed to make no progress because they are producing the solar?
  I disagree that them producing the tech used for green energy is good. China has no environmental standards or ethical standards for how things should be produced. This allows them to outcompete the rest of the world.
  If China wasn't making solar, other countries would produce solar. The result wouldn't be no solar production.
- Where do you think all your shit is produced exactly genius. The biggest climate change threat are mouth breathers living in the west who consume more energy per capita than anywhere else in the world.
  
  China is on par with the EU for consumption-based emissions per capita these days. Better per capita than the US still, but the direction of travel for both is narrowing that gap over time
  
  @yogthos
  @Fizz
  found the tankie
  
  Lemmygrad user.

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