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2024 BNEF Investment Trends report just dropped: https://about.bnef.com/blog/global-clean-energy-investment-jumps-17-hits-1-8-trillion-in-2023-according-to-bloombergnef-report/

EU absolutely fucking BODIED lmao

The US did double its investment since last year (141B), China was previously at 546B.

Canada not even mentioned. Embarrassing.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I don't consider western/capitalist investments to equal the same as a chinese investment; America regularly just gives private corporations billions of dollars and they do nothing with it.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I was about to say, how much of that money was thrown at companies like Hyperloop and Tesla

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

hyperloop

presumably not enough, since hyperloop is dead lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

It's all just thrown into the stock market.