Clean Power and Storage Wars
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When people find out what I do for work, it’s not unusual for them to ask, “Are we doomed?” My usual response is, “We would be, if not for the amazing developments in renewable energy.” We know the people willing to destroy the planet for personal gain are still

I wasn’t aware just how good the news is on the green energy front until reading this. We still have a tough road in the short/medium term, but we are more or less irreversibly headed in the right direction.

  • LesserAbe@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I’m saying it does matter. When you go to a business and say you can buy a widget for $1000, or for $500, and they both do the same thing, the business will choose the cheaper one. Sure, lobbying will get businesses some favors, loosen some regulation, get some subsidies, but at a certain point it’s not enough, the economics take over.

    • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I’m saying it doesn’t matter.

      When you go to a business and say you can buy a widget for $1000, or for $500, and they both do the same thing, the business will choose the cheaper one.

      Okay, but that’s not what’s happening. What’s happening is one business/industry controls to the supply for that widget, and that business only sells the $1,000 one, because they invested $1B to ensure that was the only option. Because that business does not offer the $500 option, and does not care to.

      • LesserAbe@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        2 days ago

        ?

        The article I shared is about how solar is now the cheapest form of power. So that is what’s happening.

        • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
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          2 days ago

          I don’t know how many different ways I can explain this. It doesn’t matter how cheap it is when no one is buying it.