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If you aren't missing something, wouldn't this happen naturally? They claim it's cheaper and scalable, what's stopping them from doing this everywhere and putti
by willcipriano 5y ago
If you aren't missing something, wouldn't this happen naturally? They claim it's cheaper and scalable, what's stopping them from doing this everywhere and putting everything else out of business? There is plenty of money floating around lately if it's viable they should be able to get capital.
- bryanlarsen 5y agoThey are doing it like crazy in Texas, where regulatory delays and incumbent opposition are negligible. https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/report-renewables-are-suffering-from-broken-u.s-transmission-policy https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/report-renewabl... Look at the graph, there are about a TW of green energy projects stalled in the regulatory queue. And that graph is 2019, it's gotten way worse since.
- willcipriano 5y agoThanks for that. That gave me a new perspective. I always sort of assumed that these solar projects were just over optimistic, because if the unit costs were true they would eventually just win the market. Having spent some time looking at atomic energy it seemed that a lot of the issue was regulation, that 20 year build delay seems to be 17 years of lawsuits and lobbying and 3 years of construction. I see now that isn't unique to nuclear. The reasons we aren't building out cleaner energy all that fast are human reasons not technical ones.
- bryanlarsen 5y agoRemember that those unit costs only recently came true. 5 years ago nuclear was still cheaper than renewables. Large utilities do not switch strategies very quickly.
- freemint 5y agoBecause infrastructure is not sexy.