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People are comparing the wrong things when it comes to solar, and that leads to solar not showing how expensive it truly is. For one, there is nowhere where so
by InclinedPlane 11y ago
People are comparing the wrong things when it comes to solar, and that leads to solar not showing how expensive it truly is.
For one, there is nowhere where solar is the baseload power, because it can't be, so it gets a bit of a "free rider" advantage. For another, solar plants depreciate like any other, but those costs aren't really factored in to a lot of solar power costs yet.
We'd need to build out a significant amount of energy storage capacity and change a lot of the grid as well in order to fully adopt solar as a baseload power source. And that would increase its cost by non-trivial factors. Would it still be worthwhile? Maybe?