Yes, yes, fossil fuel companies have a lot of political influence and are actively hindering the adoption of clean technology. But also, the world uses a lot of energy, and it takes time to build the capacity in renewables to make headway. More money would make things faster, but there is no real monetary incentive right now.
Cheapest to collect and use there and then? Sure, out of all new power generation.
But when it comes to using the power when it’s needed most, solar is very expensive because….well it produces nothing when the sun goes down and people need power. It then relies on storage, which is expensive.
But you know what is cheaper than building a bunch of new solar? Not building that solar and continuing to use the coal plant that already exists. Hence the need to price CO2eq so that the coal plant is paying out the ass and becomes non-viable.
blarghly@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The correct answer.
Yes, yes, fossil fuel companies have a lot of political influence and are actively hindering the adoption of clean technology. But also, the world uses a lot of energy, and it takes time to build the capacity in renewables to make headway. More money would make things faster, but there is no real monetary incentive right now.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
dude, solar energy is literally the cheapest form of energy right now. there is a real monetary incentive.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 weeks ago
Cheapest to collect and use there and then? Sure, out of all new power generation.
But when it comes to using the power when it’s needed most, solar is very expensive because….well it produces nothing when the sun goes down and people need power. It then relies on storage, which is expensive.
blarghly@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
But you know what is cheaper than building a bunch of new solar? Not building that solar and continuing to use the coal plant that already exists. Hence the need to price CO2eq so that the coal plant is paying out the ass and becomes non-viable.