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What Hannah Ritchie thinks about solar

@hannah-ritchie · 33 positions · 0 changes of mind

Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes Sustainability by Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of her, and revises in public when they say something she did not expect.

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3 dated positions, 2023 to 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Hannah Ritchie has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingChinese solar panels and batteries are cheap because of automation and a honed supply chain, not because of cheap labour.

    Their wordsBut, China mainly dominates these markets because it has produced a long-term industrial strategy for these technologies and has honed an optimised, modern supply chain as a result.

    ↗Why are solar panels and batteries from China so cheap?sustainabilitybynumbers.com 2nd of 5 in this piece

    Chinabatteries

    Interesting
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  3. Our readingAn acre of solar panels powering electric cars carries you orders of magnitude further than an acre of crops grown for fuel.

    Their wordsYou can drive about 150 times as far from a solar-powered electric car compared to using corn bioethanol.

    ↗Biofuels: the US could switch to electric cars and solar power on just a fraction of the landhannahritchie.substack.com 3rd of 5 in this piece

    electric vehicles

    Interesting

  5. Our readingWe worry about the land solar needs while ignoring how wastefully the world already uses its farmland.

    Their wordsWhile we fret over the amount of land needed for solar, we are often blind to how inefficiently we have used the world’s farmland.

    ↗Biofuels: the US could switch to electric cars and solar power on just a fraction of the landhannahritchie.substack.com 4th of 5 in this piece

    Interesting