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Jesse Peltan
@JessePeltan
what did y'all think "fastest growing source of electricity in history" meant? vibes? papers? essays?
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Alec Stapp
@AlecStapp
Texas solar power increased 64% (!) in one year. This isn't because the Texas government favors solar over fossil fuels. It's because solar is economically competitive in sunny places.
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Jesse Peltan
@JessePeltan
Half the U.S. nuclear fleet in 2 years... Texas has better solar resources. Texas should be the world leader in solar generation, and it should use that generation to build panels (and everything else) for the world.
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Jesse Peltan
@JessePeltan
"China's going nuclear while we build solar" couldn't be further from the truth. China's nuclear generation is growing, but it's still only half as much as the U.S. Every single month since January 2023, solar generated more electricity than nuclear in China. China's solar
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Bill Barkley
@BarkleytheBlue
Only because of grants and governmental agenda. I truly despise half truths misrepresented for personal gain. Transgender confusion grew at a similar pace and at the same time, and it just a ridiculous.
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Jon Terry
@leankitjon
They can only scale up that fast because there is a totally reliable cheap source of energy in place If solar and wind were being rolled de novo it would be much slower because of the lack of long term storage
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Alan Colon
@ColonAlanB
Well yeah. Solar and wind are coming into a mature infrastructure and economy with the ability to absorb every watt it could produce as fast as it can be built. The others were new, everything had to be developed and built from scratch, and demand was scaling with supply.
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Robert Brawner
@RobertBrawnerSF
The important question is, was it worth all the debt taken to pay for quick scale upโ€ฆwith emission reductions that minimally, almost ineffectually reduce the pace of warming? The transition will happen eventually absent fusion etc so possibly worth the accel, but likely too soon
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Oskar ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช
@MoNilsson12
It completely misrepresents this as it doesnโ€™t show these scale ups in the context of the capacity of the different time periods.
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Stanley Waite
@stanleywaite1
The Market will always dictate the outcome for manufacturing products... and since solar and wind are now the most efficient and cheapest form of electrical generation, it also has the biggest profit margin... so a smart business would go there.
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Tom Sash
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Bjorn Lomborg
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The myth that the green energy transition is inevitable and will make cheap electricity for everyone is one of the most dangerous self-delusions of the global elite My piece for Sunday Telegraph archive.ph/EufH0
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spd98
@spd98
That's a really dumb metric. It's the only time in history where it's been regulated and subsidized to replace existing generation. Fossil fuel growth had to wait on load growth and grid growth in ways PV never had to.
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Greatest Failures
@Greatest_Fails
this is literally the reason why the fossil fuel industry is crapping itโ€™s pants and pumping money into delaying their own inevitable decline - also, the nuclear power argument is just another ruse (unless we are talking about cold fusion, but that is another story)
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William Johnson - Let the Data Speak!
@johnson_wrjohn1
This is misinformation. Wind & Solar are growing because: Energy consumption continues to grow Wind & Solar are given priority on the grids. The true costs including balancing, back-up, inertia, transmission, etc. is hidden W&S recieve subsidies (CfDs, FET, Etc)
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Nino
@nhkinla_k
It indicates how fast governments are misallocating money for less efficient useful energy projects. This will cause energy increases over time.
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Travis Ore
@travis_ore
When you make the red tape and permits impossible for any other types of power.... Sales of broccoli would skyrocket too if it was the only food you were allowed to buy.
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reguile
@reguile1
That's a silly graph. Using absolutes is no good. Electricity consumption is wildly higher and the number of people is wildly higher than when all the other forms of electricity generation popped up.
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Pete๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐ŸŒ
@peteonlife
They have scaled up simply because government policy has derailed building any sensible energy production...a train crash is coming our future hanging by a wire..
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rm
@richard14997215
Because of China? I think China is going to drag the west kicking and screaming into a better future.
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