Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

[AlbertaFarmer5]

The really depressing thing about the above chart. Is that the quaintly titled "traditional biomass" is still bigger than all Wind, Solar, Hydro, Modern biofuels, and all other renewables combined.

So, dung, sticks, peatmoss and straw being burned by the worlds poor is greater than all of the other supposed renewables. In the home, resulting in devastating health and environmental impacts.
In large part because the virtue signaling western world is denying them access to cheap reliable fossil fuels.

[A990]

"Politics and the English Language" puts a perspective on the Chucks and others. The use of intelligence requires effort.

I like Marc Andreessen's quote:
To support the current thing is to bask in the sun-lit warmth of the universities and the press, the foundations and NGOs, the Fortune 500 corporations, the government bureaucracies and administrative state, the grant-making agencies, the singers and athletes, Davos and Aspen.

[GALAXIE500]

just went on Rueters website Chuck. Didn't see that article. Just buy a Conservative membership and get it over with.

[Hamloc]

Deny deny deny thats all you got Hamloc?

The International Energy Agency has similar numbers and shows renewable investment is outpacing that of fossil energy!

You going to call them left wing too? LOL

Chuck2, below is a graph from the IEA on where China’s electricity comes from by generation source. Most recent I could find for the year 2023. After looking at thisI call bullshit on your article. Maybe it is worded wrong and is only referring to new generation, there is no way if over 60% came from coal in 2023 that more is coming from solar than coal today. Total fiction.

[furrowtickler]

Chuck lives a pretend world of unicorns and leprechauns

[fjlip]

Total idiot swallows BULLSHYT for nourishment!

[furrowtickler]

My guess is that Chuck and Agstar will reply with insults , name calling and labeling by mid morning after they rest of us been up for a few hours working
it’s their ignorant trolling habit.
Sad but Tis the way it’s been for years here .
one should ignore but true colours keep shining through daily

[chuckChuck]

"The transition from horsepower to coal was a gradual process that took over a century, beginning with coal's initial commercial use around 1748 and not fully overtaking wood (which was the primary source of energy before coal) until 1885
. For the specific transition from horse to coal, the process was also slow; by 1840, coal had only reached about 5% of the global energy market, and it wasn't until 1884 that coal overtook wood in North America."


"The transition from steam power to gasoline-powered internal combustion engines in vehicles took approximately
two to three decades, with the shift occurring primarily from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, becoming particularly dominant after World War I. Early steam cars were popular in the 1890s and early 1900s, but their decline was driven by the growing convenience and reliability of the internal combustion engine, leading to gasoline-powered cars becoming dominant by the 1930s.
Global electric car sales exceeded 17 million in 2024"


International Energy Agency

[url]https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2025/trends-in-electric-car-markets-2[/url]

More than 20% of new cars sold worldwide were electric
Electric car sales topped 17 million worldwide in 2024, rising by more than 25%.1 ([url]https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2025/trends-in-electric-car-markets-2#reference-1[/url]) Just the additional 3.5 million cars sold in 2024 compared to 2023 outnumber total electric car sales in the whole of 2020. China maintained its lead among major markets, with electric car sales exceeding 11 million – more than were sold worldwide just 2 years earlier. Global sales were slightly tempered by stagnating growth in Europe, as subsidies were phased out or reduced in several major markets, and as the EU CO₂ targets for cars remained the same between 2023 and 2024. Electric car sales continued to increase in the United States although growth was about one-quarter that of the previous year. Significantly, outside of these three major markets, there was a record increase in sales of nearly 40% to reach 1.3 million, closing in on the United States’ sales of 1.6 million electric cars.

[Hamloc]

"The transition from horsepower to coal was a gradual process that took over a century, beginning with coal's initial commercial use around 1748 and not fully overtaking wood (which was the primary source of energy before coal) until 1885
. For the specific transition from horse to coal, the process was also slow; by 1840, coal had only reached about 5% of the global energy market, and it wasn't until 1884 that coal overtook wood in North America."


"The transition from steam power to gasoline-powered internal combustion engines in vehicles took approximately
two to three decades, with the shift occurring primarily from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, becoming particularly dominant after World War I. Early steam cars were popular in the 1890s and early 1900s, but their decline was driven by the growing convenience and reliability of the internal combustion engine, leading to gasoline-powered cars becoming dominant by the 1930s.
Global electric car sales exceeded 17 million in 2024"


International Energy Agency

[url]https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2025/trends-in-electric-car-markets-2[/url]

More than 20% of new cars sold worldwide were electric
Electric car sales topped 17 million worldwide in 2024, rising by more than 25%.1 ([url]https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2025/trends-in-electric-car-markets-2#reference-1[/url]) Just the additional 3.5 million cars sold in 2024 compared to 2023 outnumber total electric car sales in the whole of 2020. China maintained its lead among major markets, with electric car sales exceeding 11 million – more than were sold worldwide just 2 years earlier. Global sales were slightly tempered by stagnating growth in Europe, as subsidies were phased out or reduced in several major markets, and as the EU CO₂ targets for cars remained the same between 2023 and 2024. Electric car sales continued to increase in the United States although growth was about one-quarter that of the previous year. Significantly, outside of these three major markets, there was a record increase in sales of nearly 40% to reach 1.3 million, closing in on the United States’ sales of 1.6 million electric cars.

It sounds impressive Chuck2 except in the U.S.A. 16 millions cars were sold in 2024, so 14.7 million ICE vehicles. Worldwide 85 million cars were sold, so 68 million ICE vehicles. How many electric combines sold worldwide Chuck2?

[blackpowder]

Yes, ev is the foreseeable future, today.

The transitions from wood to petroleum each took decades.
Completion required universal affordability. No where can I think of an instance where government was involved in the process except to encourage extraction.
Each of these points are the opposite of the current fantasy.