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The most interesting thing is the growth
China reached its first 1 GW of installed solar in 2010
10 GW by mid-2013.
By June 2017, total installed capacity exceeded 100 GW
China has reached 1 TW of installed solar mid 2025
Got chatgpt to plot and to extrapolate
Why wouldn't it just stay a linear graph?
Look at the left side of the first graph. It’s set on an exponential scale.
Oops, I missed that! Thanks.
I don't understand. What do you mean?
It’s a vibe seeing solar panels cover those iconic Southern China valleys
The hill in the photo looks ugly, tbh. Still, much better (and livelier) than the landscape after oilsands or brown coal extraction.
Preferably, most grid-connected solar panels would be on buildings, deserts, and postindustrial land. But in the face of the climate catastrophe, the South China hills are also fine.
I don't think it looks ugly at all...
I was just thinking about how much of a nightmare it would be to keep them all clean.
I mean - one thing ugly, and the other thing is that this land could be arable or a nature reserve.
The same is true of oil fields but they won’t even let you see pictures of that.
Seriously. Is that a real photo? I've never seen a solar farm covering hills like that.
When I look closely it seems real, there's all the construction tracks, but the solar panels themselves look fake in this resolution. It would help if they had added a few close-ups in the article.
They need it to run those garish lights all over every building in the cities.
Ah but at least those garish lights are all LEDs these days with energy usage a fraction of what it would’ve been in times gone by
Fair point, but there's so many more of them.
Engineer: wow, these new led lights will use a tenth of the electricity our old lights used!
Boss: So you're saying we can use ten times as many lights then?
I’m not surprised! PV cells are cheaper than plywood these days.