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It took 68 years for the world to reach 1 terawatt of solar PV capacity. It took just two years to double it | RenewEconomy (reneweconomy.com.au)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (5 children)

And in true capitalistic fashion, all of these gains are eaten up by increased consumption, not used to reduce demand for other sources.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Not at all true.

The Australian grid is quite easily seen to be reducing other sources, ergo, reducing demand.

I assume you be trolling

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Indeed.

In addition, there's a lot of consumption that was non-electric (e.g. transport, heating) that is moving to electric. Most of the increased grid consumption is not new consumption, it's consumption that was previously direct fossil fuels.

The exception is basically bitcoin and AI, plus electrification of underdeveloped areas.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

All I heard was

Otherwise I was going to say the same thing, but didn't due to troll.

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