The solar boom is rapidly transforming emerging economies
8 days ago by schizoidman to c/energy
We've come full circle from drawing nazca lines 2000 years ago to what I hope is dick butt from space.
Perfect use case.
Some of these agencies had a ridiculous number of people doing sweet fuck all. Over 10,000 worked at Health Canada, one of the bloated and inefficient agencies. CFIA had 6,400 people.
I know you work in government but the model of poor productivity is not sustainable in a country with this GDP.
Restructure and invesetment is almosy always more sensible then cuts. Cuts are for when things are so bad that that are intended to lower the quality and growth of services.
Conservitives keep trying to run gov agemcies like bloated investor driven companies and it really shows
So not the West, just North America.
The rest of the West it's been established for a while and/or surging. My house is solar powered with batteries. The grid is 100% powered by two solar farms, two wind farms, and one hydroplant. It's weird seeing a house that doesn't have solar panels covering its roof.
I don't really think this comment is responsive to the article. Solar is getting built out everywhere (including in the US), and the baseline high energy consumption of the west obscures the smaller percentage based change while still representing a huge absolute change in energy source mix.
Carney is actively fighting imported solar panels.
*The West is falling behind thanks to fascists and neoliberals, Trump being an example of the former and Carney the latter. You're letting off the Merzs and Macrons of the world too lightly.
This is one of those things that no one realizes cause no one draws too much attention to it, but the US hasn't been slacking on renewables in general - https://en.wikipedia.org/... - https://earthenergylog.com/...
The thing is, developing countries will always see a bigger impact from newer technology because they are developing and so are building up base capacity. In the US we already have a lot of base load that already exists, so new power is to either increase overall load or to replace. Both of those things typically happen slower than new build out.
Also solar is more decentralized by it's nature so you don't need to deploy all the infrastructure normally expected. A village doesn't need to be connected to a larger grid to receive power during the daytime. Heck, a lot of individual homes can manage if the owners can afford panels and batteries.
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I look forward to an age where there's so much distributed solar power that it's not about building up infrastructure, but making cool patterns you can see from space.
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