China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total

Currently seeing the US climate narrative shift from "why should we stop burning fossils and get our shit together when China won't? >:(" to "why should we stop burning fossils and get our shit together when Senegal won't? >:(" Can't wait for 20 years from now when we're balls deep in climate disasters, Senegal gets its shit together, and the US narrative moves to honduras El Salvador Uganda comparing itself to the Philippines.

Holy crap you guys, it turns out that the narrative that the developing world is going to burn an ass-ton of fossil fuels is a lot weaker than I thought. It looks like there's a fuckton of equatorial and global south countries with renewables/hydro power, Honduras is even adding Geothermal. God damn it, USA, get off your ass and fix your shit already.

Fantastic. Remember guys, we're all on the same side on this one. This should be a signal for the US to get its ass in gear to do the same, but it's not like China expanding its renewable energy capacity is anything but great for everyone.

Good for them

Good. I assume it helps that most of the world's solar panel manufacturing is based in China.

The rest of the world should be ramping up production, not relying on China for cheap labour.

Oh my God, that's awful!

I hope the US responds by installing more solar panels this year than China ever has!

There's a reason the US is targeting China from various fronts (trade restrictions, sanctions, etc.). China is a powerhouse and the US is terrified of being left behind.

Well, someone has to make use of renewable energy I guess lol

Good news for one of the planet's most polluting countries.

And opened more coal plants too lol, don't be quick in praising the CCP, there's always something shady in the background...

You can thank conservatives for that. They are beholden to fossil fuel interests so they attack everything else whether it be solar energy or ev

The rise of China is democratizing access to technology. My home government, supposedly a longtime partner of the US even doing its dirty work in Yemen, has struggled for years to get any tech transfer deal with the US, too many hoops to jump through. But were able to get many tech transfers from China recently. It was a major win and that technology includes solar panel manufacturing.

China's govt has been trying to make their country as self sustaining as possible, this is part of that initiative. No one can tell you shit if you're don't rely on anyone for external things.

But they still have their crazy mines that polute right? No number of solar pannel will change anything if you don't stop what you are doing that polutes.
Same for all countries btw...

We'd have more if these right wing assholes would get onboard. You know they're assholes because they're attacking China in the comments rather than acknowledging this awesome milestone

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china also has more population than any other country

China doesn't have oil and they want to be energy independent. Because of this they heavily invest in renewables.

It's not like they are doing it to save the planet, but it does save the planet.

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Its because China isn't beholden to a bunch of invisible suits demanding money over all else. Apparently the US can't break from Citizens United, and tell this corpos whats what to literally save its own skin.

Building giant empty cities in the middle of nowhere doesn't help the housing crisis in China.

Building giant solar and wind farms in the middle of nowhere does help with the pollution crisis.

Glad that they finally found something that uses dumping money in the middle of nowhere that can actually improve peoples lives instead of just prop up an economic bubble.

Bigger country does things bigger, more at 11.

Cool.

And how many of them function properly?

US Population: 332 Million

China Population: 1.4 Billion

Those are installed, but are they connected to the grid?

This was done with the express purpose of having the title of it. Its a vanity project that wont last 10 years.