Because it was being artificialy suppressed.
Now we need to figure out how to suck emissions out of the air with it.
The current most scalable way to do that is to give cities a budget to plant trees everywhere they can.
I would love a $Billion in green energy research, but 1000 cities getting $Million budgets to plant thousands of trees and maintain them over the next 15 years would be better
We should start buying farms in the Califoirnia Valley where they are essentially abusing water rights - and plant massive forests. It would take a fraction of the water to accomplish this and reduce desertification. Eat some of the smog from LA & SD, give the millions of residents a desert forest to camp in, and so on. Expensive plan but one I would vote for.
I have it on good authority that if you filter air though the corpse of a billionaire, much of the pollutants are removed.
Build 75m tall towers in every city and fill them basement to roof with hepa filters.
Bring new meaning to the term "skyscraper"
HEPA would remove particulate but not CO2 or methane emissions, which are what drive climate change.
We’d have some clean ass air for sure though.
Allergy season would be a thing of the past. Another thing you could put in them are giant dehumidifiers (moisture farms). Filter the water and you could store it in a water tower. Then you can use that as a thermal battery/emergency clean water supply.
The key is to have something that the masses would use. Something disguised as another product, powered by renewables.
Radical, but probably expensive AF
Lol what is that latest preduction? "Sure, solar production has risen like never before, but surely now the production will plateau."
listen, I have been wrong every time, but this time, when I make the same prediction that has been wrong every time previously, you're gonna feel real dumb for doubting me
I mean. Some of them predicted it would go down. So.
Depends who the study is funded by - if it's fossil fuels, then yes.
who's making the predictions, the petrol industry?
The predictions aren't even doing linear regression, feels like taking 10 year old data and fitting on current trend
a toddler with a sharpie you say?
Especially 2012-2020 seems ridiculous. "Its been an exponential growth until now but it will probably instantly stop here and stay constant".
The US elected a guy and party that was hell bent cancelling subsidies and making installing solar and wind more expensive.
Same happened with electric car adoption in the last 2 years.
Its almost like solar panels last forever and are easy to make at scale or something.
Forget about the predictions and look at the growth only. It’s the legendary hockey stick. The stuff MBAs dream about. US manufacturers, engineers and the less shitty VCs should be fucking furious that they were kneecapped at every step and basically forbidden from participating in this market in any real way.
Who tf made that last prediction?
Yeah I know it's been growing exponentially over the last few years and the last prediction was higher than this and it blew through that one but I really think this is the absolute plateau. Maybe like 1MW more but that's it ...
All the displayed predictions are equally stupid and just look like gas and fuel lobby copium.
TBF we're talking about the industry that tricked the entire globe into thinking leaded gasoline was safe. Falsified data. Hired scientists to lie in congress. All while fully knowing the dangers.
This is much more sinister than copium.
War, sanctions and oil crisis all make solar more attractive
Independence from the billionaire fascists that want to control my energy is worth paying a premium for. The fact that it’s also cheaper is a nice bonus though.
Saving money on your bills is not like increasing your income, there is no tax on reducing your outgoings and depending where you are Solar pays off in about 5 to 7 years and your expecting it to be 80% as good at 25 years. In terms of capital investments its one of the most reliable places to put money and get a decent return. Annualised ROI is about 6% for that 25 years but then the panels are still going to work a lot longer just at a bit less output.
the only one what looks like a legitimate prediction is the one what crosses 400GW. starting 2023? 2024?
Yeah what the fuck is that 600GW prediction. Did they think collectively the solar industry would be like, "okay y'all we reached 600GW, pack it up goals reached"?
Great news for everyone who likes energy.
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Great news for every living being on earth.
To the ~~moon~~ sun!!
Solar generated 2,807 TWh of electricity worldwide in 2025, 8.8% of the total.
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Its taken us decades to get to this point and solar can easily do 5x that much generation without even thinking the word battery, and close to 10x with just daily battery backup.
Surely it'll plateau any second now...........
Jan 1, 2027 Governments pay homeowners to stop introducing solar energy to the grid.
Xi did this.
i wonder how this will affect the grid. it will for sure flatten out the curve during the day, maybe even leading to excess capacity we'd have to burn off. what magnitude of storage would we need to actually use all the extra power?
Hmmm, this has been part of the debate since solar power started up. Batteries both grid and home size are being installed all over. The cost is falling rapidly and the grid forming batteries are providing all the services of a power station.
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