This news is a year old.
China very likely surpassed 1,250 GW at this moment.Oh didn’t even notice the date, you’re right given the rate of the build out, it’s likely much further along now.
826.5x the power needed to time travel in a Delorean. That’s a lot of GW.
i hate it when someone else does my joke before me. :p
US Tech leadership in the World is already a running Gag in China since time.
They have truckloads of minerals they can use, vast amounts of empty space to place solar panel parks, and very good reasons to go self-sufficient to the point the government is subsidizing the push, so it makes sense they could reach that goal so fast.
They make >80% of the world’s solar panels too, so they’re also helping every other country meet their goals at the same time.
But at what cost?
at the cost of ownin the libs
It’s not actually about mineral availability at all. The problem is with refining these minerals, and China invested decades into building out the infrastructure to do that. Geography has little to do with China’s success here.
According to this wikipedia source, the entire species generated 18TW in 2019
A lightning strike is around a terawatt.
You’re mixing up units, and I’m not sure what you’re saying.
Watts are a unit of power. Watt hours are a unit of energy.
The link you gave, which is not Wikipedia, describes 180,000 TWh of energy used in 2025, 2,811 TWh of which came from solar.
Did I say it was a wikpedia link, or did I say it was a wikipedia source?
Does the OP link say GW or GWh?
Fuck off. You’re a failure of a pedant.
Oh, I was gently warning you that you were unintentionally wrong. OP’s link is about power, and your link is about energy, and you’ve somehow managed to completely misread it.
But if you’re gonna dig in your heels, then sure. Continue being wrong. Being a dick about it won’t make others take you seriously.
You literally wrote the wrong unit. What a loathsome fucking wretch you are. Stupid, antagonistic, smarmy. This place is more reddit every day.
You’re thinking of OP (or the original article’s title), the person you’ve been talking to here is someone else
Either way, OP is correct. The linked article talks about power capacity, not energy produced. This jackass decided to come in and call another website a “Wikipedia source,” misquote a completely different and irrelevant energy stat by 4 orders of magnitude, using a power unit, and bring some kind of attitude with it.
This jackass decided to come in and call another website a “Wikipedia source,”
Think about this for literally five seconds you fucking moron.
Does wikipedia link to itself as a source?
What do you think the word ‘source’ means?
