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Jan Rosenow
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Jan Rosenow writes Bright Spots, a personal blog at janrosenow.substack.com about economics and science. Since 2026, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Pakistan: The solar revolution nobody planned”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Jan Rosenow's Substack posts on solar power, including Pakistan's rapid rooftop solar rollout, as sources for comparisons with nuclear power and with Germany's solar installations.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Jan Rosenow's newsletter on the energy transition. Oxford Professor. Energy policy advisor. Energy transition optimist. Cutting through the noise to show how the clean energy future is possible.
Most-linked posts?
- Pakistan: The solar revolution nobody planned3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-06-21
What Hacker News says?
Or the Pakistani solution: over 3 years, import 55GW of panels and distribute them across roofs. https://janrosenow.substack.com/p/pakistan-the-solar-revolut... By comparison, the country's nuclear programme is targeting 2050, and I suspect that may get overtaken by events. Although it's still required for nuclear weapons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Pakistan > You're making it sound like solar is…
Comment linking /p/pakistan-the-solar-revolution-nobody
on “Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear”Submitted Spain just became one of Europe's cheapest power markets. Here is how as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBoth Germany and Pakistan installed roughly 17 GW of new solar in 2025 [1,2]. Pakistan's GDP per capita is about €1500. [1] https://janrosenow.substack.com/p/pakistan-the-solar-revolut... [2] https://eu.globalsolar.store/news/78/germany-installs-175-gw...
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on “Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026”Submitted Why are German heat pumps more expensive? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pakistan: The solar revolution nobody planned as a story · 1 points
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