#Shock revelation

[zvaigzdelasas]

Millions of solar panels are piling up in warehouses across the Continent because of a manufacturing battle in China, where cut-throat competition has driven the world’s biggest panel-makers to expand production far faster than they can be installed.

The supply glut has caused solar panel prices to halve. This sounds like great news for the EU, which recently pledged to triple its solar power capacity to 672 gigawatts by 2030. That’s roughly equivalent to 200 large nuclear power stations.

In reality, though, it has caused a crisis. Under the EU’s “Green Deal Industrial Plan”, 40pc of the panels to be spread across European fields and roofs were meant to be made by European manufacturers.

However, the influx of cheap Chinese alternatives means that instead of tooling up, manufacturers are pulling out of the market or becoming insolvent. Last year 97pc of the solar panels installed across Europe came from China.[...]

The best estimates suggest that about 90 gigawatts worth of solar panels are stashed around Europe. That solar power capacity roughly equates to 25 large nuclear power stations the size of Hinkley Point C.[...]

The sheer scale of the problem was revealed in a recent report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

It warned that although the world was installing at record rates of around 400 gigawatts a year, manufacturing capacity was growing far faster.

By the end of this year solar panel factories, mostly in China, will be capable of churning out 1,100 gigawatts a year – nearly three times more than the world is ready [sic] for. For comparison, that’s about 11 times [!!!!] the UK’s entire generating capacity.

For some solar power installers, it’s a dream come true. Sagar Adani is building solar farms across India’s deserts, with 54 in operation and another 12 being built.

His company, Adani Green Energy, is constructing one solar farm so large that it will cover an area five times the size of Paris and have a capacity of 30 gigawatts – equal to a third of the UK’s entire generating capacity.

“I am installing tens of millions of solar panels across these projects,” says Adani. “Almost all of them will have been imported from China. There is nowhere else that can supply them in such numbers or at such prices.

“China saw the opportunity before others, it looked forward to what the world is going to set up 10 years on. And because they scaled up in the way they did, they were able to reduce costs substantially as well.”

That scaling up meant the capital cost of installing solar power fell from around £1.25m per megawatt of generating capacity in 2015 to around £600,000 today – a decrease of more than 50pc – making it cheaper than almost any other form of generation, including wind.[...]

“Up to 2012 there was a healthy looking European solar panel industry but it was actually very reliant on subsidies and preferential treatment.

“But then European governments and other customers started buying from China because their products were so much cheaper. And China still has cheap labour and cheap energy plus a massive domestic market. It’s hard to see Europe recovering from those disadvantages.”

Trying sososo hard to make this sound like a bad thing [23 Mar 24]

#sowwy ur nationalistic fever dream got outcompeted #free market innit #now shut up and install the fucking panels #shocking revelation: combatting a global problem isnt most efficiently done through local solutions #'we cant install that many' yeah you can lol #wheres that 'become an accompished scientist' meme

[purpleghoul87]

just a little comic :)

#fnaf id au #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #michael afton #my art #fnaf art #mike afton #fnaf michael afton #fnaf michael #pssssst he's not actually.... but poor guy just had a SHOCKING revelation he's not really thinking clearly dude... #poor mike is just having a horrible time :(

[supanuts]

i think… pun is the same vampire.

#1000 years old #1000 years old the series #opal kritsapatorn #luktaan pusanisa #shane nutchapol #punyo #1000yearsoldedit #sasa gifs #1000yoep7 #a shocking revelation #them just going 'huh?' at each other for most of this scene 😭

[bakubunny]

You know you're disgusting right

you know i don’t care right

#hold the phone #some people like being disgusting 🥰 #shocking revelation i know #asks

[bumbling-a-bee]

Yeah I've been listening to "How Long?" again. And yeah I feel normal about it

#i had a shocking revelation this weekend #i love women mpre than life itself but i would still do horrible unspeakable things just to hear patrick page's voice its embarrassing #hadestown #patrick page #amber gray #talking to myself

[togepies]

a very vogel roadtrip feat. lots of tie dye

can you tell which sibling loves having their photo taken and which one absolutely most definitely does not? [template]

#revelation of the decade: wren is the annoying little sister *shock**gasp* #who makes her brother buy tie dye shirts with her #and then promptly *insists* they need photos taken #cyberpunk 2077 #cyberpunk 2077 v #fem v #nomad v #male v #(he isn't a v though but shhhhhh) #cyberpunk 2077 photomode #my screenshots #oc:wren #oc:finch

[xxnomadsxx]

what was like the ‘gift’ that made the brothers finally explain to Branch that putting body parts in a box is EXTREMELY frowned upon in troll society?? Also branch going “huh??? Wym?” boy some people just don’t want blood and flesh as presents okay 😭😭

Honestly nothing can beat the bad guy corpse parts he gave to them. But after that it was just a series of dead animals that tried to attack them, and some bloody troll hair from some randos who threatened them at parties and stuff (one time Floyd complained about some douche bag ex and Branch hunted him down just to beat him up and get a chunk of his hair for his bro)

It took so long for them to finally tell him because he just looked so cute and happy every time he gave them a gift!!! The final straw was when they were complaining about some pest in the kitchen (troll equivalent to a cockroach) and Branch hunted down every last cockroach(?) in the village just to bring it to them on the doorstep, like he was a cat giving u a ded mouse (When they sat down to have the talk that dead things as gifts are actually super gross Branch just had this confused face and basically said “whaaa”😦)

#he was shocked by this revelation #dreamworks trolls #trolls #trolls brainrot #trolls band together #trolls branch #nomads au #trolls movie #grey tribe #trolls au #au idea #trolls bruce #trolls spruce #trolls clay #trolls floyd #trolls john dory #trolls the movie #trolls fandom

[notyourwatermelon]

you’re scandalizing your kids, bucciarati

#this is so dumb #jjba #jjba pt 5 #bruno bucciarati #leone abbacchio #bruabba #giorno clocked the bruabba immediately #its really the two disaster boys who are at all shocked by this revelation #mista is not paying attention

[scorpionatori]

I’m dying at the imdb parents guide for devilman crybaby

#my other favorite one was #‘ryo is revealed to be Satan which may come as a shock to fans of the character (especially religious ones)’ #like. yeah? that’s what’s shocking? #not when he turns his best friend into a devilman after taking him to a sex club? (they are both 16) #not after causing the apocalypse? no I think it’s the revelation that he’s satan that truly is shocking #also ryo being satan is probably the least offensive thing to ‘religious people’ that happens in devilman crybaby #devilman crybaby

[pinkcrittertomb]

I am so obsessed with the idea of Zoro being a butch woman who uses he/him pronouns and no one having a clue

#he never mentions it because people uses his preferred pronouns already so he doesn't think he need to explain it if no one asks him #he be like “why Robin and Nami got to have a separated room from everyone else? fuck if i know i'm fine with whatever” #when everyone finds out they react with the proper reaction (that being shock but supportive still!!“ #and luffy like “damn you've been a girl all this time? what is the matter?” and being confused that everyone is shocked about the revelation #monkey d. fuck gender luffy #one piece #zoro #roronoa zoro #fem zoro

[red-mage28]

Apparently VanityMoth is back and he made a video about “the slow death of the MD fandom” or something like that and like

Sorry that people have other interests, I guess

#murder drones #the hell’s that even supposed to mean #shocking revelation: MD fans can like other things

[personwholoveschocolate]

I like how ineffable bureaucracy shippers are also suffering right now despite our unexpected victory because

not every good omens watcher is ineffable bureaucracy shipper but every ineffable bureaucracy shipper is good omens watcher

#this shocking revelation came to me when i thought that i probably ought to celebrate my favorite crack ship becoming canon #but i felt like im #not really could do it yet #not yet #the wound is fresh #ineffable bureaucracy #good omens #good omens s2 spoilers #good omens spoilers #good omens season 2 spoilers

[seventh-district]

i’ve just finished season one of TMA, and being someone who’s okay with spoilers is fun because it means i can peruse the wiki and scroll through the tag and i get to become privy to all sorts of weird, wonderful, halfway-out-of-context information that i get to look forward to understanding in the future

like. what do you mean Leitner’s in the tunnels?

what do you mean Jon eats the extinguished sun??

what do you mean it’s spelled Gerard Keay???

#Jon‚ narrating a statement: '…whose passport had identified him as Gerard Keay.' #Me‚ an American‚ not yet in the habit of following along with the transcripts: 'Ah‚ yes. Jared Key.' #tma spoilers #the magnus archives #gerry keay #gerard keay #tma #i’m sorry but Why do british ppl apparently pronounce Gerard like that how do y’all audibly tell Gerard and Jared apart #anyways based on how i’ve glossed over the other two arguably much more shocking revelations i mentioned #i’m sure you can tell that i’ve latched onto Gerry and everything else is just background noise to me #okay that’s an exaggeration. i Do love the entire show and am invested in the entire cast to varying degrees but. #Gerry… my beloved… his role in Ep. 12 hooked me instantly #it’s bad‚ guys. ive already started making him a playlist. it’s safe to say there’s no hope for me. the fixation train has left the station #Gerry (and Michael) have moved in and will live rent free in my brain indefinitely #listen. you can’t just present to me a cryptic goth man with long poorly dyed black hair and mommy issues who’s covered in eye tattoos- #-and is frequently affiliated with the supernatural and then expect me to Not fall in love with him!!! #*looks at DoorKeay* …and i am also not immune to the opposites attract & human x supernatural entity tropes… #tbh looking at all this DoorKeay fan art has me suddenly remembering my EraserMic days #which is a wild thing to say i know but listen. it’s just the whole long-black-hair x long-blonde-hair similarity #and maybe a bit of the opposite personalities. idk why but i was just admiring one particular DoorKeay fanart and it suddenly hit me #i literally whispered to myself out loud ‘holy shit it’s EraserMic again…’ and it's not Really but also it kinda is and i think it's funny #but then i did More thinking and i think it goes beyond just them. i think i rlly just have a thing for Dark & Light coded character ships #Michael & Gerry… Navia & Chlorinde... Sun & Moon… Mic & Aizawa… #i think i’m learning smthn abt myself now i’ve gotta think if there’s more examples… #i'd almost say Alphonse and Seth but eeehhh not quite. and honestly i think the bigger-brain way to see their relationship through the- #-Dark x Light trope would be to take into account the resurgence of DM!Al and that kinds flips the dynamic #i think that if either of them are Moon-coded it'd be DM!Al. but they honestly just don't quite fit in that trope's box anyways #they're Pink/Black x Brown coded. not Yellow x Black #i do gotta say that i've pulled an Interesting number of songs off Seth's playlist while working on Gerry's... it's the mommy issues innit #i'd almost say PB x Marcy but once again we've got a character that's pink-coded‚ not yellow. i think they fall into a different category

[wilcze-kudly]

This makes me think of how i imagine Weilin would be if they were to ever canon

#Wei's been ignoring his feelings for years and after they get together he's in dtraight up shock #meanwhile bolin is reveling in his newfound bisexuality and badass boyfriend #not my tweet #weilin #wei x bolin #bolin x wei #wei #wei beifong #bolin #legend of korra

[undershyperfixate]

I'm going to be absent, a lot

Especially this week, I'll try to post the Canva of sbg when I can but I won't feel the motivation to do anything else, I'm going through a bad state and I can't bring myself to do anything

So I apologize in advance if I don't reply to reblog or comments ect

<3

#sbg #school bus graveyard webtoon #who would have thought #being ill means i'll act ill #i'm so shocked at this revelation

[anidealistatbestburntoutatworst]

fyodor: “what makes you so sad nikolai,, i think you’re the saddest soul i’ve ever met,,”

nikolai: “you’re the first person that’s ever said that- I’m usually told how happy i am”

fyodor: “well that’s because you make people feel happy,,”

#fyolai #i could rant about this for hours #the decay of angels #they’re in love and also insane your honor #in a shocking revelation i have come to realize i adore this pairing #they mean so much to me #bungo stray dogs #bsd ships #fyodor x nikolai #bsd fyodor #bsd nikolai #bsd anime #bsd manga #there’s just something about their dynamic #the official arts have fed into my delusion #bsd #pride month no pride YEAR #bungo gay dogs