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RenewEconomy is a well-established Australian website focusing on green energy. Last week, they published an article by Andrew Blakers based around the claim that “New solar capacity is being installed faster than anything else in history.”
This received some pushback online (“disinformation!”), on the grounds that:
(i) this is only electricity, not total energy; and
(ii) nature doesn’t care how fast something is installed, only about emissions.
We were directed to look at this graph from Our World in Data:
It’s true that solar forms a minute part (2%) of the energy supply as yet, and that emissions of no single fossil fuel have peaked, not even coal.
But the topic at hand is change, and for that we have to look a bit closer.
The low-emission transition is based on two main…
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