Submission statement: this article discusses the increasing popularity of renewable energy, especially solar. It’s relevant to r/neoliberal as another data point about renewables being not only better for the environment but also outright cheaper to build.
>Commercial costs have also fallen, which led scientists at the University of Exeter and University College London to claim last year that solar energy has reached an “irreversible tipping point” that will see it become the world’s main source of energy by 2050.
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If every country in the world did this, we could push back climate disaster by a few years.
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Submission statement: this article discusses the increasing popularity of renewable energy, especially solar. It’s relevant to r/neoliberal as another data point about renewables being not only better for the environment but also outright cheaper to build.
>Commercial costs have also fallen, which led scientists at the University of Exeter and University College London to claim last year that solar energy has reached an “irreversible tipping point” that will see it become the world’s main source of energy by 2050.
If every country in the world did this, we could push back climate disaster by a few years.
Which is insanely unimpressive
https://preview.redd.it/22p4rbqnetug1.jpeg?width=568&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=20da84ff0fe21bfd7fefeca284cc785e8e4e57dc
virgin East Asia vs Chad…. North Korea ?!
Much of China’s electricity is produced by burning coal. It’s reducing but to say electricity creation isn’t a source of climate change is false.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-clean-energy-pushes-coal-to-record-low-53-share-of-power-in-may-2024/