Reply #4: Nope. I mean double. [View All]

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If you wanted to measure whether renewables in a given year had outpaced other forms of generation, why on earth would you do it based on how many dollars were spent in each... when it's the amount of electricity generated that is the relevant comparison?

Of course the reason is obvious. By the more relevant measure, the article couldn't be written.

I'm not surprised you don't see the point of the chart

I didn't say that I didn't see the point of the chart. I (correctly) pointed out that it doesn't have much to do with the subject of the article. It's PV-only when the article is about all renewables, and dollars spent A vs. B is not illustrated by a graph of per-unit prices for one part of A.

If you need that simplified... just let me know.

the OP is about a rapidly escalating rate of installation of renewables; a rate that now exceeds that of fossil fuels.

And obvious confusion on your part. The OP implies the first, it doesn't present anything re: the second. Which was the point that obviously went over your head.

The chart shows a forecast by the IPCC tying the installed capacity to declining prices for solar generated electricity.

That's nice. So? It also shows (as I said), that solar PV makes up an incredibly tiny wedge of the pie.