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Re:Steep decline in nuclear power would threaten energy secu... by ben_w on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @01:07PM (#20032058)
It has taken off exponentially. That’s what the growth curve you’re looking at is called. :)
Re:Steep decline in nuclear power would threaten energy secu... by tpkj on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @03:30PM (#20033490)
No, it has not taken off exponentially yet in the way the Tony Seba video demonstrates with a picture of 5th Ave in NYC in the year 1900 where there are lots of horses used for transportation, and only one car, compared with a picture of the same street in 1913, where the street is full of cars, and there is only one horse to be found.
Re:Steep decline in nuclear power would threaten energy secu... by jessaustin on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @10:08PM (#20036293)
Scroll down the page I linked to the graph "Exponential Growth of Solar PV". A straight line on a log graph is exponential by definition.
Re:Steep decline in nuclear power would threaten energy secu... by tpkj on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @09:45AM (#20040046)
There's the formal definition of "exponential", and then there is "exponential" in the sense of completely disruptive and transformative as in the example Tony Seba gives. I am referring to the latter.