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8 connected korrents · 9 moments on record from 3 Nov 2008 to 30 Jun 2026. Nearly all of them are about solar.
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An acre of solar panels powering electric cars carries you orders of magnitude further than an acre of crops grown for fuel.
Holds HRHannah RitchieMGMichael Grunwald
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Same subject: solar, energy
A future of constrained energy will need more people working the land, and that is not the same as going back to the past.
Holds CSChris Smaje
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A solar system holding a trillion humans is the right thing to aim at, because a population that size would have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins alive at once.
Holds JBJeff Bezos
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After four more doublings of installed solar capacity, solar electricity will cost about 3 cents per kwh in the sunniest areas and 4.5 cents per kwh in moderately sunny areas.
No longer holds
Ramez Naam
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Average solar electricity prices in sunny parts of the world will fall to one or two cents per kwh by 2030 or 2035.
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Ramez Naam
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Cheap clean energy has broken the old trade-off between raising living standards and cutting environmental harm.
Holds CHCasey HandmerHRHannah Ritchie
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Demand for electricity will rise to absorb far more solar than is currently considered feasible.
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Ramez Naam
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Europe cannot meet its energy needs from renewables alone and will need nuclear power, solar power from deserts elsewhere, or both.
Holds DMDavid MacKay
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Every doubling of the solar built worldwide has cut its price by 30 to 40 per cent, and that learning rate is why the price keeps falling.
Holds CHCasey Handmer
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