• @DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22•2 years ago

    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.

    • SpziOPEnglish
      9•2 years ago

      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.

      • @DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16•2 years ago

        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.

        • @CordanWraith@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1•2 years 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

  • @ydieb@lemm.eeEnglish
    13•2 years ago

    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.

    • partial_accumenEnglish
      11•2 years 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!”

      source

  • @Tubbles@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8•2 years ago

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

  • @Koffiato@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2•2 years ago

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

  • blazera
    1•2 years ago

    I thought we just spent trillions of dollars on more renewables