China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal

Re:China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal by defrost on Sunday August 11, 2024 @11:36PM (#41220983)

> Comparinging by volume produced/consumed, I think it's reasonable to pretty much ignore all non-borosilicate glass

     Soda–lime glass accounts for about 90% of manufactured glass.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soda%E2%80%93lime_glass

The implication being that borosilicate glass accounts for at most 10% of global production.

It's the dominant type for thermal | bakeware where expansion factors matter, but overall not the most common glass type in production.

> And the snark doesn't add to the discussion.

Please advise the user that stated "Pretty sure your source is shit given .. {false statement}"

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Re:China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal by phs318u on Monday August 12, 2024 @12:43AM (#41221224)

Apologies for getting my facts wrong. You are of course correct.

Re: snark - the point of HN is that we are better than that. If someone is snarky, then we shouldn't respond in kind. But I get it. It's easier to say than to do.

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Re:China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal by defrost on Monday August 12, 2024 @12:57AM (#41221270)

Consider this, I've responded to an ill considered disrespectful one liner with a wealth of information about glass.

At no point did I claim that rare earth in glass was a bottleneck to solar panel manufacture, glass only arose as doping glass for specific properties is one of the many reasons why we process rare earth materials at all.

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