"That has rocketed from an installed capacity of 6GW in 2008 to 25GW in 2011—amounting to half the world's installed solar power, with 7.5GW installed in that year alone."The article has some interesting data about the bulk price of electricity, but I was startled by these numbers.
I recently heard Germany was going to shut down all their nuclear reactors. I figured they were on a trend to freeze to death just before the lights go out (I'm pessimistic like that :)
From Wikipedia:
"The installed nuclear power capacity in Germany was 20 GW in 2008 and 21 GW in 2004."So recent solar panel installations have nearly replaced nuclear.
That is a _lot_ of solar panels. There are a lot of factors, but there is only about 1 KW/m^2 to work with (and efficiency should cut into that hard).
Or, at least 25 million square meters of panel!
US production from solar? 0.9 GW (2010) - yay us.
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