Solar energy is going to power the world much sooner than you think

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1. It’s gonna be weird to be left behind in the U.S. as the world moves to the 22nd century.

2. Doubt

3. Except the United States!

4. it fucking better

5. Linked article is behind a paywall, but the main data source is [here.](https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/global-electricity-mid-year-insights-2025/)

   Solar is the cheapest energy source, and it continues to get cheaper. But skeptics often point out, with great sagacity, that it doesn’t work at night. Battery capacity is growing just as rapidly, and costs are falling. My favorite way of showing that is [this graph.](https://www.gridstatus.io/records/caiso?record=Maximum%20Battery%20Discharge%20To%20Load%20Ratio) In 2020, grid scale batteries set and all time record by supplying 1.3% of California’s demand for electricity. In 2025, they set and all time record by supplying 37.3%. Affordable solar and affordable storage is an unbeatable combination, and the economic benefits of each feed into the other in a self-reinforcing cycle.

6. The US is in it’s Dark Ages, no pun intended. Religious mania, anti-science, ruling elites, serfdom, economic breakdown.

   I hope you can turn it around and if trump goes make true reforms to rebalance your society.

7. *parts of the world.

   Fixed it.

8. I just saw a post in the climate sub that 2024 was the new record year of coal use. So a big grain of salt when reading these rhetorics either side.

9. I think solar’s biggest influence in the near term is to make the energy business less profitable.

   The industry argues it is there to keep the lights on, but it is there to make money. It will be interesting to see what happens when it stops making money.

   The big difference is that solar has zero marginal cost. That will lead to increasingly brutal price wars in the electricity markets around the world in coming years.

10. Maga/ Trump will be remembered as the party that gave solar the solar industry to China. GO ORANGE MAN!!!

    Please people, let’s **“Release the Epstein Files”**. Put the crook in jail where he belongs and end this crap!!! Get rid of the commander and THIEF!!!

11. Meanwhile in America we are using (checks notes) a dying fucking coal industry. Like this country could not have tried to be more dense if it could. Hell even my city in city skylines moved away from coal with in a few months. By the time it went from small village to what ever the next rank was I was using wind turbines and hydro turbines. Lord I hate this administration so much. Then the potential jobs from this industry that were lost. I swear money makes people do the stupidest shit ever.

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