'Wow!'

Some big ideas that show or, at least, suggest that some innovations towards a more sustainable Earth that people are thinking about or implementing now could lead to enormous benefits for all of us.

Hannah Ritchie has been number crunching (as per usual):

We could produce a lot of electricity on the land used for biofuels - About enough to meet current global electricity demand.

If we put solar panels on those 32 million hectares of biofuel land, we could generate around 32,000 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity. Incidentally, that’s the same amount of electricity as the world consumes in a year.

So we could keep the biofuels, which amount to around 1,400 TWh of energy, and meet around 4% of global transport demand. Or we could use it for solar and produce enough electricity to meet the world’s current electricity demand

Ref: https://hannahritchie.substack.com/p/biofuels-vs-solar-land?publication_id=1199196&post_id=185701683&isFreemail=true&r=5t4071&triedRedirect=true

ref Bloomberg Green Updates

China is quietly dominating yet another area of the global energy transition: long-duration energy storage.

Unlike conventional lithium-ion batteries that typically store power for four hours or shorter, long-duration energy storage, or LDES, can hold and release electricity for many more hours or even days. As intermittent renewables become a bigger part of the global power supply, LDES is badly needed to help balance energy supply and demand, and China is racing ahead of the rest of the world.

IMPORT graphic from Media/Energy folder called 'Long Duration Battery Storage Globally'

ps also from Bloomberg Green:

China also plans to upgrade its capability to recycle older solar modules in the coming years, as massive amounts of aging equipment are set to fall out of use.