{"id":20659,"date":"2024-12-21T00:53:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T08:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=20659"},"modified":"2024-12-21T07:23:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T15:23:06","slug":"2024-12-21-solar-finally-goes-exponential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=20659","title":{"rendered":"2024-12-21 Solar Finally Goes Exponential"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sam (the Electric Viking) tells us about a Renewables futurist and how China is installing renewables that are the equivalent of five nuclear power plants *a week*!!\u00a0 China has surpassed 1 Terawatt of solar capacity in 2024.\u00a0 Global installed solar capacity has hit two terawatts!&nbsp; It took 68 years to reach 1 Terawatt Solar capacity, but only 2 years to double it to 2 Terawatts!\u00a0 Solar has gone exponential!!\u00a0 The pace is accelerating!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coal power plant approvals collapse as world soars past solar 2 TW of solar\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1K4WOWWba1M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam (the Electric Viking) tells us about a Renewables futurist and how China is installing renewables that are the equivalent of five nuclear power plants *a week*!!\u00a0 China has surpassed 1 Terawatt of solar capacity in 2024.\u00a0 Global installed solar capacity has hit two terawatts!&nbsp; It took 68 years to reach 1 Terawatt Solar capacity,<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=20659\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3187,955,249,706,2647,950,2360,284,722,143,34,543,1284,542,2705],"tags":[624,2925,369,455],"class_list":["post-20659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bess","category-construction","category-electrical-system","category-energy-storage","category-generation-electrical-system","category-generation","category-grid","category-history","category-newsmedia","category-photovoltaic-and-solar-cells-or-panels","category-renewable-energy","category-solar","category-video-books-documents-literature","category-wind","category-wind-turbine","tag-china","tag-exponential","tag-renewables","tag-solar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20659"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20669,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20659\/revisions\/20669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}