Post #2820790
2025-10-20 07:09 UTC
2. 20 years ago when I got this job, I thought maybe solar would one day be 1% of global electricity supply. In 2024 it was about 7% worldwide, and rising fast. You can see this eating into fossil fuel power generation in, for example, Europe.
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@solar_chase@mastodon.green 2025-10-20 07:09
3. Solar will not solve every problem. But the biggest problem is that our civilisation relies on digging up fossil carbon and burning it, which is destabilising the climate, which multiplies a lot of very unpleasant threats. Solar is part of stopping us needing to do that.
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@scooter@labyrinth.zone 2025-10-20 23:56
@solar_chase@mastodon.green I did a doubletake at this graph. Is that ~20% wind/solar for all of Europe??