60 Scientists Say We're in the Solar Century
What’s new More than 60 top scientists from around the world just released a report on Nature.com (linked in today’s sources) saying that solar power is taking over as the top power source faster than anyone expected. Experts from labs in the United States, Germany, Japan, and other countries found that the world now has more than 2 terawatts of solar power, double what we had just four years ago, and that solar will likely be the world’s dominant source of power by 2050. Why it mattersIt took the world 68 years (1954-2022) to reach 1 terawatt of solar. We reached 2 terawatts just over two…
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