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> This is entirely irrelevant It is entirely relevant. How is that power getting from someone's rooftop to an aluminum smelter? Magic? > Yes, it's what allows
by Turing_Machine 4y ago
> This is entirely irrelevant
It is entirely relevant. How is that power getting from someone's rooftop to an aluminum smelter? Magic?
> Yes, it's what allows solar modules to see 10-20% yoy reductions in price per watt and 15MW wind turbines to be more cost effective than 1MW ones.
If it were really "cost effective" it wouldn't need the constant cheerleading and handwaving. Nor would it need the massive government subsidies.
And no, the entire power grid isn't going to be rebuilt within the next two years. Or the next two decades.
You are a fundamentally unserious person.
- Schroedingersat 4y ago> If it were really "cost effective" it wouldn't need the constant cheerleading and handwaving. Nor would it need the massive government subsidies. The total subsidies ever spent in solar are about the same order as the subsidy on a single nuclear reactor. That age is now over and most new utility scale projects (the majority of installations) are fully unsubsidized. It won't even be economically preferable to keep existing gas running soon, let alone run a nuclear plant. Any money spent on nuclear now is just a handout to the builder and a handout to the gigawatts of fossil fuels that money could make obsolete. https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/us-installs-record-solar-capacity-as-prices-keep-falling/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/us-installs-record-s... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-09/gas-plants-will-get-crushed-by-wind-solar-by-2035-study-says https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-09/gas-plant...