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Right, but you’re assuming that solar and wind are capital constrained, and I asserted above (twice now) that they aren’t (that spending more money on solar and
by throwaway894345 4y ago
Right, but you’re assuming that solar and wind are capital constrained, and I asserted above (twice now) that they aren’t (that spending more money on solar and wind isn’t going to get more solar and wind deployed because we’re already building it out as fast as we can).
- ncmncm 4y agoMore capital would finance building more factories to enable building out faster.
- throwaway894345 4y agoThat’s not how that works. See the chip shortage for example. It takes a lot of time to build out factories, train personnel, etc.
- ncmncm 4y agoAt any given time you have a rate of capital expenditure you are willing to devote to the crisis. Some fraction of this maxes out production capacity of wind and solar energy equipment. The rest is spent on something else. It can be dumped on building individual nukes, or invested to expand wind, solar, storage, and fuel synthesis equipment production. Only one of those choices feeds an exponentially increasing capacity to respond to the crisis.