"Im Mai 2026 erzeugte die Solarenergie mit 45,5 TWh ein Allzeithoch und übertraf damit die Produktion im Mai 2025 um 17 % und den bisherigen Rekord vom Juli letzten Jahres."
Interessanterweise geschieht dies, wenn die Regierung der USA den erneuerbaren Energien aktiv feindlich gegenübersteht. Ich frage mich, wie es wäre, wenn sie eines hätten, das sie ermutigt?
Die meisten offiziellen Prognosen gehen davon aus, dass die USA irgendwann nach 2050 50 % auf erneuerbare Energien umsteigen werden. Diese Zahlen zeigen, dass die USA dem Rest der Welt folgen und die Umsetzung in der Praxis viel schneller vonstatten geht.
The US is greening far quicker than official projections, & seems to be heading to be majority-renewables in the early 2030s. Solar overtook coal generation in the US electricity mix for the first month on record in May 2026.
byu/lughnasadh inFuturology
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if the usa is achieving this with trump imagine what it could have been like without him
It’s kind of crazy to think that some people will continue ranting and racing in favour of fossil fuels all the way until their usage disappears.
It’s almost like the federal government doesn’t matter that much. Our communities and private enterprises do. Stop putting the federal government on a pedestal and stop giving more powers to federal governments. We should be stripping their power.
“Point this plank vaguely upward and get free power (minus the plank)”
Vs
“Burn these difficult-to-acquire, somewhat radioactive rocks in an expensive facility that keeps having to buy special rocks to burn or else it closes down”
(Yes I know coal isn’t a “rock” but you get the point)
I’ll take it
Progress is progress, green world pretty and good
So, how much farther ahead would we be if we didn’t have a science denier and coal advocate as President?
And this is without major federal support. Imagine where we could be
It’s why Trump just shoveled nearly a billion dollars into coal companies‘ pockets.
He knows, and they know, that you can’t hold back the tide of progress forever.
This is their last chance to loot as much money as the possibly can, trying to keep the hands of the clock from moving forward for a few more minutes before they finally jump ship and leave us to play catch-up with the rest of the world.
I worked in climate policy during the first Trump admin and most of Biden’s, and people really undersell just how big a difference Biden made on climate policy in the US. And he did it in smart ways that aren’t easy to undo. The IRA alone is probably single-handedly responsible for keeping 1.5 degrees long-term warming in reach (it’s still a stretch). There were also climate measures in the CHIPs act and the infrastructure bill. These were HUGE investments in mitigations and emissions reductions right as the market was reaching pivot points globally. Could not have come at a better time.
Electing Trump definitely undermined some of this, but ultimately, the right guy was there at the tipping point. We aren’t out of the woods yet, but worst case scenarios you were hearing about ten years ago are functionally off the table now; most median projections have us down to 2.5 degrees of warming and projections have consistently underrated renewables growth.
The biggest impediment now probably is „AI“ data centre growth.
And then the „AI“ nation attacked and all the data centers were powered by fossil fuels while contaminating every fresh water supply. On a serious note it’s good to see renewable energy becoming cheaper to bring online than fossil fuels. And as battery technology improves and becomes less reliant of rare earth metals it will get even better and cleaner than today.
It’s bad now. Consequences will continue be felt many years into the future. But the billionaire class are still only a minority despite all their money and resources. There’s no way for them to control every single little thing, and they depend on you believing them unstoppable.
We are in a time where quality of life is generally high despite pull back over the decades and we are adapting to our past mistakes. Our main challenge right now is to block out groups who want to reset this progress out of psychotic reasons like maintaining white supremacy and advocating for genocide. These sound extreme but these are the literal problems facing the world today. The development of science always leaves them behind, one way or another. The damage they do in the interim though is still very much real.
Power cannot be transported effectively over long distance. Solar and Wind are stop gaps only. The places where wind and solar makes sense are far away from population centers. Landman quote is mostly spot on. Anybody else telling you different, is a snake oil salesman.
[https://youtu.be/fmbZwxEnAFc?si=H1YHYT5foCeoOjDz](https://youtu.be/fmbZwxEnAFc?si=H1YHYT5foCeoOjDz)
Shhhh, don’t let the admin know. We don’t need them ruining a good trend. We’ll…ANOTHER good trend.
It’s kinda hilarious to me that Trump is making renewables seem a lot more attractive by ruining the economy especially oil prices. I guess a stopped clock is right twice a day or something
if we remove oil industry subsidies the same way, the actual $10 a gallon price would change those numbers drastically, and create a demand for ev that’d make even cyberjunk look good
That is encouraging and just shows that the economics of Renewables are compelling as fuck.
It seems like if trump wanted to hype a win on climate change he could, instead of all the bogus crap that he actually tries to take credit for.