If you put the word "solar" into the search engine on Daughter Number Three, you get a whole lot of results. So much has changed in the world of solar since I started this blog, though, it means posts from 10 or more years ago are probably pretty out-dated.
Here's one from February and another from December 2025, both still relevant.
I bring this up because I just read a Financial Times article about how China's solar product has now exceeded demand, leading to a surplus of solar panels and therefore industry fallout.
That may sound bad, but get this quote:
Clean power, on a scale that would have seemed utopian at the time of the Paris climate treaty in 2015, is now within reach. The price of solar panels has fallen to rock bottom.
And:
The real surprise... is that it cost China less than $18 billion in sectoral support over 15 years to build an industry that can now provide more clean power than the world can readily absorb.
As Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò pointed out on BlueSky,
conservatively, the United States spent two-thirds of that figure in the *first week* of the war on Iran. it's genuinely difficult to overstate how many world-historical own goals US politics has accumulated over the past few decades
How does it feel to be part of a country led by the stupidest, vilest people imaginable while we are in the midst of a civilization-threatening climate crisis?
Pretty bad. Pretty bad.
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