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Meanwhile in Amerikkka: We must secure the existence of our petrodollar and a future for oil executives.

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[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago

praise-it Exits to the climate collapse can be found 'here' and 'here'. Also, in case of emergency, this can double as a graph of the superiority of central planning to Laissez-faire economics

[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just saying, it looks like the year-on-year spike began around the time Trump started "negotiations" with Iran that China would've known could threaten Hormuz.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago

All European powers should have smelled that this was coming from back when the US blew up nordstream and started turning like Hungary into a solar farm.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

Sometimes I see people ask how to set up nuclear power. Personally, I never have, and probably will never need to. praise-it

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

am i dumb or is this chart missing a vital piece of information... what are the units of solar power capacity here?

[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Gigawatts installed.

So in May, China added 92 Gigawatts of solar infrastructure to its grid.

[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago
[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

oh, for a second I thought that y axis was percentage and that they doubled their capacity last month

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

We missed a golden opportunity when their monthly installation passed 1.21 GW.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Huh. Why do they keep spiking in December? Is that just an administrative quirk because it's the end of the year?

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Likely because most of the year they are laying groundwork for when the large amounts need to be set up, working out kinks with small batches. The end stuff is likely mostly done by seasonal employees, which often come in from the collective and private farms to the city to work (depending on the region) during the off-season.

As well, China has pretty high unemployment rn, especially among the youth, so they can marshall these kinds of labor resources whenever they really want, it is just a matter of the state actually wanting to accelerate whatever 5-year plan targets they are trying to hit.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I didn't think about seasonal employment!

I was thinking administrators were just cramming everything in at the end of the year like kids putting off homework lol

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 1 points 6 days ago

Lol there might be some level of that as well, I am not exactly personally knowledgeable on how these things are done, I am just guessing based on my father's experience with Chinese companies, my personal manufacturing and construction experience with summer seasonal workers, and general economic knowledge of China.

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 week ago

Yeah probably rushing to hit targets I guess

I'd assume making sure they meet whatever goals are set.

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is the last month the solar industry gets government subsidies which could explain the spike.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

Is there something going on annually which explains the December spikes? Using leftover procurements perhaps?

[–] gingerbrat@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago
[–] SeitanicMechanic@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

Surprised there's no "But at what cost?" in the title.

Who is responsible for this bastardized graph?