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@oscarjiminy@aus.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Doctorow on Solar Transition in far better shape than we're given to believe

"the material bill for solarization is in freefall, with no end in sight. The amount of stuff we need to make panels, transmission lines and batteries keeps declining. Further: the efficiency gains of “clean” technology are astounding — meaning that, for example, it not only takes a lot less material to make a solar panel, the panel we make out of so much less stuff generates a lot more power. More: we keep finding ways to substitute more abundant materials for materials that are harder to find or refine (for example, swapping out lithium in batteries and replacing it with sodium, one of the most abundant minerals on Earth). Finally: we keep finding new sources of the materials that we can’t readily substitute for"

#solarPunk #renewableEnergy #fossilFuels #climateChange #energyTransition

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-10-02-there-goes-the-sun-carbon-shifting-039f968e727d

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Decarbonization at a distance

A post-American century that runs on sunshine.
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@oscarjiminy@aus.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

"we can reclaim literal *tons* of material from existing, superannuated tech. There’s a solar-powered factory that ingests old solar panels, decomposes them into their source materials, and makes new, hyper-efficient solar panels out of them, reclaiming 99% of their materials"

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