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[–] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The nation of Buffer is about to go crazy with solar, good for them!

[–] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, but only in the unknown region.

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well I don’t know about that than.

[–] PatFussy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

The shadow realm is actually mostly powered by solar now

[–] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Spzi@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.zone 1 points 1 year 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.ee 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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_accumen@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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!"

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Yeah but it wouldn't look as impressive that way. Amazing how you can manipulate data to fit whatever angle you're pushing.

[–] Tubbles@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] hstde@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

If course it is: it's always about them short term gainz

[–] Koffiato@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] robinm@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Isn't China also building a lot fission power plants atm?

[–] kobra@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[–] blazera@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I thought we just spent trillions of dollars on more renewables

[–] coco@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Much water waste !!! To c’ean them up