One of the most remarkable and impactful transformations of all human technology and civilization in history is happening right now!
One of the most remarkable and impactful transformations of all human technology and civilization in history is happening right now!
China's been eyeing the long game for a while now on many levels like tech, medical, agricultural, educational, energy, territorial globally & if the dollar slides far enough will be economically & succeeding in these areas mightily. This has been exponentially accelerated by Trump administration.
People should understand that's it's also still happening in the US too despite malicious headwinds. Last year 96% of newly installed power generation capacity was zero emission. Only 4% was fossil fuels. And that's mostly a function of market forces making renewables the cheapest option.
For example, that built manufacturing capacity doesn't go away even with Trump's hostile policies. I would expect continued growth to slow for now, but what's built is built.
[sarcasm] What about clean, beautiful coal? Don’t forget that we have that. [/sarcasm]
Did 🍊🤡 ever read a newspaper or a book? Nahhhh probably not.
And the US is going in the opposite direction. How did we become so ignorant?
While Trump bans all new solar projects in America. So glad we’re making America great again. Let’s bring back coal fired steam engines next!
And it ain't AI!
Panels and batteries are becoming absurdly cheap. Blue states are working hard to keep people on the grid (for largely good reasons), but costs for people who want to go off the grid are plummeting. Hard to see how regulators win.
And not by the US. Thanks Trump
And America gets left in the shadows of fossil fuels.
Hmm. Trump what about this? China’s moving forward, while we are moving back. How ‘bout that clean coal?
They lie. Also, neither the Chinese people nor the CCP government give two tap dancing shits about the environment. Ask the people who’ve lived there and aren’t paid shills what it’s like. This graph has no meaning in reality.
So the country that has zero safety standards whatsoever for food, buildings, cars …has fished their own waters to death and and want us to invade others for this very reason …pollutes like it’s a national pastime ..they’re super focused on green energy? Horse shit.
They're just forward thinking enough to realize that it'll be cheaper not just in the long term, but the mid to close term. It should pretty easily pay off within a decade Using less fuel also means they could potentially make money by exporting more
They’re definitely not forward thinking enough. They run on coal and it hasn’t reduced. It’s all a lie. A smog screen. The West eats it up and their shills help by delivering the propaganda from a white mouth.
Also, I think the CCP leadership does, at least, understand that global warming is a real thing that will cause problems if not addressed. Obviously they still built a lot of coal plants when it was necessary for rapidly developing the country... But it's no longer necessary, so they're pivoting.
There’s no pivot
The 20th century was the American century. The 21st will be the Chinese century.
Meanwhile our moron in Chief is out here claiming windmills are giving whales cancer & having his goons eliminate the entire EPA. If I told you 20 yrs ago China would end up leading the fight against climate change, your mind would melt from shear absurdity... but thats where we currently are.
It would be cool if the US could lead in a category other than military spending 🤷🏻
I thought the Chinese were inferior.? They are eating our lunch. Sandwich.
And the orange idiot clown wants the US to go backward. Someone remind me again how all his bullshit is making America “great” again.
I certainly have my own criticisms of China, of course, but (especially comparing it to the United States) I’d say that China is headed in a very, VERY overall positive, prosperous direction as a country right now. Truly a wonderful and impressive transformation indeed Hayes!
Xi is more of a neo-authoritarian. Xi's authoritarianism is guided towards a making a stronger China, eating our tech lunch & all the advances made show. While in US. All that has made America strong & the World Leader are being defunded. The authoritarian wannabee is all about 'me', 'me', 'me'.
And all of the conservatives that argued against the concept of climate change remediation because they were expensive and “we will have no impact because China and India produce more gh-gasses than we do.”
Yeah and TrumPedo isn’t promoting any sort of renewables at all. Your “POTUS” is one of, if not the most pathetic leader of any country.
That's not Trump being pathetic. That's Trump supporting his backers in the fossil fuel extraction and consumption business, fighting valiantly against American energy independence, trying to give away the US's natural resources including the atmosphere to his cronies, attacking windmills and solar.
(In case it's not 100% obvious, that's NOT support for Trump.)
As an American, Dump is absolutely the worst leader of any nation in all of history. I’m certain of it.
Yes --- and thanks to the fact that the U.S. is currently ruled by fascist fuckheads more concerned with 'owning the libs' than acting in our national interest, they're going to cede all the benefits of this transformation to the Chinese. Heckuva job, MAGA dipshits!
But it is straining their grid (about 1/4 the way down the article).
… in China.
We can see the transfer of power and world dominance literally in front of our eyes.
What is Chinese demand for oil looking like?
And it could be us instead.
Oh yeah, how's my Instant Pot supposed to run when the sun goes down? Our Dotard in Chief told me nothing runs at night and he's never wrong.
Also windmills are evil
Driving the whales mad and killing all the birds
We are going back to ignorance and superstition.
Meanwhile we have this dim bulb.
Waiting for China to attack us for endangering humanity with our energy policies.
China's technological leadership will continue to accelerate, transitioning their consumer product manufacturing prowess into high-tech industries. Soon, they won't be interested in making the consumer goods and machinery that we in the US have become dependent on.
The US economy will collapse, and likely some kind of violent social-political upheaval will occur. We won't have the means to support ourselves, and then a benevolent China can buy and operate whatever power generation, agribusiness or manufacturing facilities they want on US soil.
Scary thought. I hope it’s not too late to change course in the coming years. Thanks for sharing.
I mourn what we once were in science (just 7 months ago). We will be behind others in innovation for a very long time maybe forever. The destruction of what we built as a country is sickening.
What do you think China's utility-scale PV $/kWh is now for new arrays? I make my own in CA for around $0.06, way way less than off-peak retail. China is making investments that make a LOT of sense (cents?)
America is abandoning being a leader and wants to be the nation clinging to the 1950s. The damage to the future American economy will only become apparent over the coming years.
And it’s not AI
Biden and Harris do the right thing and Trump and GOP destroy it. The death cult kills everything.
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And it’s not AI!
We are being left behind … and fast!
And America is missing out.
It would have been us too but Trump cancelled all the projects
And, #ChildRapistPrez thinks it's better to stick with last century's methods of energy production. Because he's so fucking smart. Also, #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
And Trump is backing away from wind and solar. China will beat us.
Jeez- why can’t we do that?????
Meanwhile US solar is being hamstrung by the MAGA Messiah. www.ngrippel.com/ngr-politics...
I honestly can’t believe that the tech bros aren’t pushing Trump more on this.
Good thing America is defunding doing such a thing in this country. America, making America great again by never doing anything good again.
China is going to make all the money from solar technology while the U.S. languishes.
The opposite is actually happening. China's solar industry is a train wreck of overcapacity and the companies are all losing money. Conversely, the one US manufacturer, First Solar, is very profitable.
China continues to be the leader of the Free World
And we have the pedophile bankrupt spray tan king running things
Meanwhile, we’ll all get to live in Pittsburgh in 1904.
Black lung back in style
You have one of most powerful and awesome sources of energy in the universe in your neighborhood. Once you have the technology to capture it, it's obvious. But political will is still required.
The UAE is marching down the same renewable road as China while the USA is trying to convince people wearing shitty red Chinese made hats that coal, gas, oil, and nuclear will build our future energy infrastructure. #RenewableEnergyIsOurFuture #TrumpIsHallucinating
Exactly , while others double down on coal and gas, nuclear is the infrastructure play that secures a clean future.
And the conman pedophile and his lunatic fringe are going to burn it all down.
Forward thinking... imagine that. Of course they don't have the CEO's of energy companies to reward. We're going to lose the world because of this administration and their owners.
The corruption and inept leadership in the US will catch up with us eventually.
27%. And close to free once constructed making ongoing energy costs super competitive. But if you don’t have energy as a cost of your production this is irrelevant. LOL
I ardently recommend @billmckibben.bsky.social new book on solar as our last, best hope. Couldn't be more timely.
And we're out of it because we are being governed by a bunch of ignorant thugs.
Meanwhile, we are reviving coal.
omg what if they’re obsessed with ai to maintain power utility profits
But we got nice clean coal ! We’re doomed 😔
Their leader understands how solar energy works and doesn't think that the dark of night and clouds makes solar energy a bad source.
Don’t worry, we are going back to clean coal 😂
Yes and they’ve made it essentially illegal here.
The 1990's conspiracy-movie section of my brain is toying with the idea that everything we're seeing now is because we are almost past the point of no return on free energy and the forces of darkness are grasping at the last threads of their power. We're in Cold Fusion land.
And America is dropping the ball on it hard because Trump is salty about windmills in Scotland.
US & China are both in a new era of technology AI & robotics, this unstoppable advancement will produce own needs & direction regardless of human choice. This happened at the start of WW1. aviation, submarines,machine guns etc Arch Duke Ferdinand was a trigger, not a cause. (share)
In 20 years, China has gone from one of the most polluted countries to one of the cleanest. Because of their switch to renewable energy. While here in the US, we are going the opposite direction under the current administration.
Republicans are so fucking stupid. It’s not just Trump, it’s all his idiot snowflake followers.
"but clouds".
No no no. See they are not white people. So how can they be successful?
But not in the good Ole USA with Grandpa Simpson at the helm
But the current administration doesn't believe in it. Solar is ugly and Windmills kill birds. Well, gee, let's not do what is good for the country.
Energy will be an afterthought for the rest of the world while the US will subsidize coal until it can’t even standup with that extra help.
China decided to embrace the future with renewables and EV. Trump has decreed that the US must return to the past. See you guys if and when you get to the future...
California's there, further ahead than china, GLHF everyone east of the west coast 🤣
Don't count New England out! There are a lot of EVs here.
Great call-out. Any word on whether the U.K. has managed to get those plots to cross this year like California? They're super close!
Oh ha! Not UK. New England as in the northeast area of the US.
Parts of the US embrace the future. It's the murky bits in the middle, Texas and FL that are stuck.
To be fair, interesting enough FL and TX come in second and third for total number of EVs.
Right, but this post is about renewable generation. CA: 57% TX: 30% FL: 10% And FL and TX are massively *increasing* their fossil fuel dependency via unchecked demand...
It may be hard to grasp outside the U.S. market, because things are so bizarre here as a loose republic of states, but it's very difficult to talk generally about "America" anymore because the numbers and results are drastically different. FL and TX are 2nd and 3rd, sure, but that's negligent...
It implies FL and TX are *close* to CA on EVs. They're not remotely. CA has more EVs than the next *ten* states combined, or bottom *forty five*. California has 35% of *all* EVs and is approaching 40%...
With you friend. Here in Sydney we are slow adopters but now well on track with Chinese made cars that are really great.
Nothing makes me smile more than the absolutely warp speed progress of Australia's adoption of renewables and EVs, it's nothing short of extraordinary!!
Incentives at state level here. With smart planning one can be almost cost neutral Electric Vehicle Rebate | Revenue NSW share.google/pYC7yuiORxW2...
China is moving ahead into the 21st century with science, engineering, solar, EV’s, etc, while America is abandoning all those things so we can pretend it’s the 19th century again.
Why are we still living in the 20th century? It’s because there is a lot of money to be made from coal, oil and gas. What would happen if everyone had solar panels on their homes? Poor people wouldn’t have to worry about utilities being turned off.
Oil donors are getting their money's worth at the expense of the people.
Have you seen the air pollution in china? If these statistics come from the CCP they are and should be scrutinized very carefully. Just saying….
Going from coal to green energy is what would happen without capital interests from gas companies.
Which is why fossil fuel industries whose fortunes are on the line are fighting solar's implementation. They need to keep their filthy way of making money at our expense.
And now consider the cowardly lies of "It doesn't matter if we change, if the others won't" we are the others.
I was thinking the same thing. Wasn’t too long ago that the excuse was that China wouldn’t do anything so why should we?
Amazing!
need this for the USA
China's solar will generate in 2025 an amount of electricity equal to about 27% of USA's electricity demand.
It’s looking like China, not Russia, will be the new world order. We have failed as world leaders.
And GOVERNMENTS are standing in the way: Canada and the US. We would be far further along if they did *nothing* and let "the market" take its course. That would be dereliction of duty, but it would be *less* destructive than propping up petroleum.
The fossil fuel industry wants to make solar energy illegal. They got Trump's attention with a $10B donation to Make America Fascists Again, Inc.
The US used to do shit like that. Sigh.
At least we can applaud other countries.
And the U.S. is going in the opposite direction--another sign of national decline.
WE.ARE.COOKED.
A good example of why renewable energy works and can power our needs. With that said, we need to do our part also. We don’t need coal or oil. We need new ideas - and they are working.
What we get instead:
It CAN be done!
Didn't they hear Trump's warning on how expensive it is?
Nope, In 🇺🇸 we prefer to make widows out of wives, by having their husbands mine for coal, work on oil rigs, etc. You know the uber-masculine way to cut your life short.
but, i was told it doesn’t work when it’s cloudy?
Kudos.. China will forge ahead with environmental protection while America recedes..
And since we have a Nazi idiots ruling us, we are being left behind.
Great clearly. A shame about the two coal fired power stations opening every week in China.
And Trump is doing his best to ensure the U.S. falls behind.
And we are actively avoiding taking part in ☹️
Australia too: bsky.app/profile/rene...
By all means USA, keep drilling and digging. When the rest of the world (lead by China) invest in Solar and Wind, you’re stuck in the 1950:ies..
It's a shame it's happening so far away from us.
Imma say "wake up americans" but I what I actually mean is "seize the offices of the power and energy deparment" (or whatever is called there)
Our country has been stolen. Ask yourself who benefits when the U.S. bows out of leadership positions in science, technology, arts, culture, soft power, etc. China, that’s who. Who is allied with Russia, without whom Ukraine would have prevailed a long time ago? China.
If you are a net consumer of fossil fuels (China) you embrace solar and EVs.
And the us is standing arrogantly on the sidelines to preserve the wealth of the owners of an early 20th century industry
Joe Biden and the Democrats gave away the last vestiges of American exceptionalism and superiority. Let’s remember to thank them.
Meanwhile, America is killing off solar and trying to bring back coal? Death to all earth people?
Meanwhile, in the US.....
Birds, whales, golf courses….
renewable energy generation in the US employs 5x as many people as coal
I'm afraid we'll be looking back on that as the zenith of renewable energy in the US. At least till 2029.
The world moving forward while the US is wildly careening into the past because.... Republicans.
We could do that here in the US if we had the gonads.
And we've got mass murdering psychopaths running the US who literally want to burn humanity off the world
Kathy] Hochul must ensure NYPA leads the nation on lowering energy bills, slashing pollution, creating good green jobs, and protecting our planet now,” the Public Power NY Coalition
Go china!
Which is why Trump wants to kill it.
and we are choosing to not do this because of politicians bought by dying industry
The sun is just giving this shit away.
And US is sitting on its hands, actively sabotaging itself from participating.
Correct. Thanks to one white man and one political party; namely Felon Trump and the Republic Fascist Party. Thanks for sharing.
Not for us! Back to the mines people.
Trump will claim that China is stealing sunlight making it impossible for us to use solar.
And the US wants to transition back to coal. We are governed by morons.
China is eating our lunch. Have come to the realization the American Century officially is over, as did end the British Century at the end of WWI. We have become a nation of fools, led by selfish, racist grifters. We had a good run, up until a decade ago. Benjamin Franklin foresaw this in 1787.
Damnit! This should say that the U.S. is experiencing these increases in solar production.
¿Drill baby, drill? Hmmmmmmm…
I guess clouds never block the sun in China, right, Donald?
Meanwhile, our fossil fuel industry paid good money to make our govt. stare off into space as if nothing's happening.
And, it isn’t in this country.
We better halt approvals on ALL new US renewable energy projects!
China is primed to take over the world.
The Chinese can hold more than one idea in their mind.
If AI is where tech corporations are focusing their energies, and nations are resting their economies on tech, and AI needs massive amounts of energy...
FUN FACT:.... ....the equivalent of a coal power station worth of solar panels is added every 15 hours
yet, the US removes subsidies for an industry that employs ~3.5M people to prop up coal which employs ~42k
And where employment peaked in 1927!
And where Black Lung is back!
Correct. Unfortunately, stupidity is a gold badge of honor for felon Trump and the Republic Fascist Party. I hope we all survive the Orange felon’s reign of terror. Godspeed.
The coal industry donated to the trump campaign, of course they are gojng to be propped up.
It only cost this guy $300,000 in Trump's last term. I wonder how much he paid this time? www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/c...
Putin’s got one helluva sense of humor
But Trump says solar doesn’t work. Except when the sun heats up the border wall that he’s ordered to be painted black, I guess.
We made a good start, and now we're being left in the (coal) dust.
That could have been us, if we didn’t have so many goddamn fucking stupid people in this country
And to think we could’ve competed for this milestone if we had embraced the technology and manufacturing instead of clinging to our “fossil fuels only” masters.
While we burn a diminishing source of energy and kills the planet
Ok dude burn that tie, it’s horrible & fire whoever gave that to you.🚫
We are so behind
Yep. While we are rounding up migrants, playing tarring games and footsie with Putin, China is busy doing useful things and taking the world markets. Well done, MAGA.