Global solar increases 64% in first six months of 2025

[Old Rocks]

Solar installation increased by 64% in the first six months of 2025 over 2024. Led by China and India more and more nations are finding solar a better solution for energy needs than fossil fuels. No railroads, pipelines, mines, or drilling needed. No need to purchase fuel for to convert water to steam and run that through very expensive turbines. And you can use the land that the panels are on for other purposes as well, farming or parking lots.

Here is the link that somehow did not get posted on the last attempt;

Global solar installations surge 64% in first half of 2025; world installed 380 GW of new solar capacity in first six months of 2025 | Ludhiana News - The Times of India

Global solar installations are surging, with a record 380 GW added in the first half of 2025, a 64% increase compared to the previous year. China lead

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

 

[Crepitus]

Solar installation increased by 64% in the first six months of 2025 over 2024. Led by China and India more and more nations are finding solar a better solution for energy needs than fossil fuels. No railroads, pipelines, mines, or drilling needed. No need to purchase fuel for to convert water to steam and run that through very expensive turbines. And you can use the land that the panels are on for other purposes as well, farming or parking lots.

Here is the link that somehow did not get posted on the last attempt;

Global solar installations surge 64% in first half of 2025; world installed 380 GW of new solar capacity in first six months of 2025 | Ludhiana News - The Times of India

Global solar installations are surging, with a record 380 GW added in the first half of 2025, a 64% increase compared to the previous year. China lead

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

We're falling behind the rest of the world.

 

[yidnar]

Solar installation increased by 64% in the first six months of 2025 over 2024. Led by China and India more and more nations are finding solar a better solution for energy needs than fossil fuels. No railroads, pipelines, mines, or drilling needed. No need to purchase fuel for to convert water to steam and run that through very expensive turbines. And you can use the land that the panels are on for other purposes as well, farming or parking lots.

Here is the link that somehow did not get posted on the last attempt;

Global solar installations surge 64% in first half of 2025; world installed 380 GW of new solar capacity in first six months of 2025 | Ludhiana News - The Times of India

Global solar installations are surging, with a record 380 GW added in the first half of 2025, a 64% increase compared to the previous year. China lead

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160...w-coal-plants-than-other-countries-report-fin

 

[toobfreak]

Global solar increases 64% in first six months of 2025​

For a second I thought you meant the Sun just got hotter.

Solar installation increased by 64% in the first six months of 2025 over 2024. Led by China and India

64% of nothing is still nothing. Solar is attractive yes because the Sun is a source of essentially unlimited, inexhaustible power, the problem is in getting it, photoelectrically converting it to DC electricity, then changing it to 60Hz AC, is neither an easy nor cheap technology, and if not done right as China and India are most surely likely to do, can lead to massive abuse of the environment much less encourage slave labor in accomplishing.

There are no free rides.

 

[ding]

Solar installation increased by 64% in the first six months of 2025 over 2024. Led by China and India more and more nations are finding solar a better solution for energy needs than fossil fuels. No railroads, pipelines, mines, or drilling needed. No need to purchase fuel for to convert water to steam and run that through very expensive turbines. And you can use the land that the panels are on for other purposes as well, farming or parking lots.

Here is the link that somehow did not get posted on the last attempt;

Global solar installations surge 64% in first half of 2025; world installed 380 GW of new solar capacity in first six months of 2025 | Ludhiana News - The Times of India

Global solar installations are surging, with a record 380 GW added in the first half of 2025, a 64% increase compared to the previous year. China lead

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

I can’t think of a better way to usher in the next glacial period other than the widespread use of solar power.

 

[ding]

We're falling behind the rest of the world.

Why do you want the planet to be colder in the middle of an ice age?

 

[sparky]

For a second I thought you meant the Sun just got hotter.


64% of nothing is still nothing. Solar is attractive yes because the Sun is a source of essentially unlimited, inexhaustible power, the problem is in getting it, photoelectrically converting it to DC electricity, then changing it to 60Hz AC, is neither an easy nor cheap technology, and if not done right as China and India are most surely likely to do, can lead to massive abuse of the environment much less encourage slave labor in accomplishing.

There are no free rides.

'clean energy' is an oxymoron.......~S~

 

[ding]

'clean energy' is an oxymoron.......~S~

No such thing as a free lunch.

 

[elektra]

Solar has failed across the world

Solar is a product of the oil and gas industry. That is why solar is the most expensive least efficient way to make electricity

 

[Old Rocks]

Solar has failed across the world

Solar is a product of the oil and gas industry. That is why solar is the most expensive least efficient way to make electricity

Miss Elektra, that is one of the dumbest things you have posted yet. So you think that silica comes from oil wells? Or the metals and compounds used in thin film solar comes from oil wells? LOL

 

[elektra]

Miss Elektra, that is one of the dumbest things you have posted yet. So you think that silica comes from oil wells? Or the metals and compounds used in thin film solar comes from oil wells? LOL

Yep, solar panels come from refineries.
Old Crock, you claimed steel where you worked was made without stuff from oil and gas then you linked to a page that said you are wrong.

last I checked, polysilicon is a chemical. Of course I worked for Wacker, and now SpaceX so what do us in the industry know

 

[Captain Caveman]

Solar installation increased by 64% in the first six months of 2025 over 2024. Led by China and India more and more nations are finding solar a better solution for energy needs than fossil fuels. No railroads, pipelines, mines, or drilling needed. No need to purchase fuel for to convert water to steam and run that through very expensive turbines. And you can use the land that the panels are on for other purposes as well, farming or parking lots.

Here is the link that somehow did not get posted on the last attempt;

Global solar installations surge 64% in first half of 2025; world installed 380 GW of new solar capacity in first six months of 2025 | Ludhiana News - The Times of India

Global solar installations are surging, with a record 380 GW added in the first half of 2025, a 64% increase compared to the previous year. China lead

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

64%? What a coincidence, so did electric bills.

 

[Old Rocks]

64%? What a coincidence, so did electric bills.

LOL And 300 million people died of drug overdoses in the US. You lie as easily as the ass you kiss.

 

[Old Rocks]

Yep, solar panels come from refineries.
Old Crock, you claimed steel where you worked was made without stuff from oil and gas then you linked to a page that said you are wrong.

last I checked, polysilicon is a chemical. Of course I worked for Wacker, and now SpaceX so what do us in the industry know
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Miss Elektra, such a silly person you are. While our reheat oven used natural gas, when we smelted the steel in 100 ton lots, it was all done with electricity. And the Pueblo mill now uses solar for most of their electrical needs.

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[Old Rocks]

For a second I thought you meant the Sun just got hotter.


64% of nothing is still nothing. Solar is attractive yes because the Sun is a source of essentially unlimited, inexhaustible power, the problem is in getting it, photoelectrically converting it to DC electricity, then changing it to 60Hz AC, is neither an easy nor cheap technology, and if not done right as China and India are most surely likely to do, can lead to massive abuse of the environment much less encourage slave labor in accomplishing.

There are no free rides.

 

[Old Rocks]

For a second I thought you meant the Sun just got hotter.


64% of nothing is still nothing. Solar is attractive yes because the Sun is a source of essentially unlimited, inexhaustible power, the problem is in getting it, photoelectrically converting it to DC electricity, then changing it to 60Hz AC, is neither an easy nor cheap technology, and if not done right as China and India are most surely likely to do, can lead to massive abuse of the environment much less encourage slave labor in accomplishing.

There are no free rides.

So 2000 terra watts is nothing? Must you always post such lies? Right now solar is the least expensive way to generate electricity. And it is far less environmentally destructive than mining and burning coal. Slave labor? Damn, but you are telling the most ridiculous lies.

 

[toobfreak]

So 2000 terra watts is nothing?

When did I say otherwise?

Must you always post such lies?

What lies? Be specific.

Right now solar is the least expensive way to generate electricity.

Hmm. I can build a nuclear power plant on a few acres of land capable of powering half a state for 50 years; how much of a state can I power on just a few acres of solar panels around the clock? Remember, the shit doesn't even work at all on cloudy, rainy, stormy days or from late afternoon to mid-morning, so it won't even serve as a primary power source.

And it is far less environmentally destructive than mining and burning coal.

What is damaging about tunneling some coal deep out of the ground? Will the gophers miss it?

 

[fncceo]

All those people who live on The Sun need to stop driving gas guzzlers and buy Teslas.

 

[Captain Caveman]

LOL And 300 million people died of drug overdoses in the US. You lie as easily as the ass you kiss.

Renewable energy production up.

Electric bills up exponentially.

Doesn't take an Einstein to work that one out. You pay renewable energy investors when they produce electric, and when they don't. Are you gonna erect a turbine farm for the electric board to say, "We'll just pay you for electric when demand is there"?

 

[elektra]

And the Pueblo mill now uses solar for most of their electrical needs.

The Pueblo Mill is hooked up to the grid, it is ran off the grid.