Technology

60078 readers

4404 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

444

Solar power expected to dominate electricity generation by 2050—even without more ambitious climate policies (techxplore.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology

51 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Solar power expected to dominate electricity generation by 2050—even without more ambitious climate policies::In pursuit of the ambitious goal of reaching net-zero emissions, nations worldwide must expand their use of clean energy sources. In the case of solar energy, this change may already be upon us.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Solar as it is today exists because the Germans put a shit ton of R&D funds into it, and because the Chinese used state-funds to built an industry, and now it's a competitive industry that will take over the energy market. People sometimes think you have to wait for the technology to develop. That's usually not the case though, governments invest and make it happen. If you wait nothing happens.

[–] kadu 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most of the technologies we benefit from today have been either entirely funded by some government or at least partially funded by them.

There are exceptions, but I mean... I'd argue vaccines and the internet are more important than double-sided tape and a VCR for sure.