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If this is true it’s amazing, the world needs about 2.85 TW so this would be more than a third of that.

I'm finding it hard to find a source for what the current available global capacity is. 1/2.85 TW sounds amazing, would you happen to have a source?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/859178/projected-world-e... claims around 7 TW

So in about 7-8 years, Solar could theoretically have enough capacity to meet the needs of the world?! That's staggering, and incredible news if true!

I asked chatGPT so it may be incorrect

Hah, fair enough.

We need orders of magnitude more storage to go full solar, or wind. Currently it’s hard for electric network management to integrate even 10% of intermittent energy sources into the mix.

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