Octavio
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- Comment on Solar Overtakes Coal as China's Largest Power Source | OilPrice.com 2 weeks ago:
Just gonna leave this here.
- Comment on Solar Has Crossed a Critical Economic Tipping Point | Solar now requires no more upfront capital than coal or gas to produce the same annual electricity 2 weeks ago:
Are you counting the space taken up by the gas wells, transportation infrastructure, and storage facilities?
- Comment on Solar Has Crossed a Critical Economic Tipping Point | Solar now requires no more upfront capital than coal or gas to produce the same annual electricity 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but you have to pay for the sunshine every year that you use to power the panels. And you have to build pipelines to transport that sunshine from the faraway places where it’s developed, and sometimes you have to liquefy it a load it onto gigantic tanker ships and carry it overseas, and there’s always a risk of it exploding and…oh, wait. I’m thinking of the gas. Never mind.