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[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The nation of Buffer is about to go crazy with solar, good for them!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, but only in the unknown region.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

The shadow realm is actually mostly powered by solar now

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well I don’t know about that than.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Great example of how to pad your chart to push an agenda. Granted, I am for this agenda, but this kind of stuff definitely detracts from it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, maybe I was too quick to jump on the hype train. Could you elaborate what's wrong with it? This might also be interesting to read spelled out for others.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Besides that first year jump by China, most of the growth there is in the Buffer/Unknown section. Remove it, and the chart looks a lot less impressive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

To be fair though, the legend doesn't mention all of Oceania, so Australia and New Zealand would be included in the buffer. So it's not necessarily invalid data

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This graph does what every other predictive graph does, cuts the superlinear growth short just after one year. It's guanteed to be very wrong. At some point we will have way more solar than needed and it will severely flat out, but I don't think is even close it it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Edit: I forgot to add the quote for those that don't know this Simpson's scene:

"Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continue...ayyye!"

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah but it wouldn't look as impressive that way. Amazing how you can manipulate data to fit whatever angle you're pushing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When I read this type of projections, be it energy, money or whatever, it is always the next year that is exploding in volume

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

If course it is: it's always about them short term gainz

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Good! Between regular renewables, I wish we had more fission development though as they are actually greener per kW produced interestingly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Isn't China also building a lot fission power plants atm?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Didn't know that, cool!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I thought we just spent trillions of dollars on more renewables

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

Much water waste !!! To c’ean them up