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This article kind of has the: “Obesity rates are plummeting as cancer rates increase” feel to it. Basically, a really shitty situation is driving something tha
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago
This article kind of has the: “Obesity rates are plummeting as cancer rates increase” feel to it.
Basically, a really shitty situation is driving something that you are seeing as good. Lebanon at this point is pretty close to a failed state. The solar power boom is basically the populace losing faith in the government to provide basic infrastructure.
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- grugagag 4y agoYes but it also says about solar being a solution, maybe to a shitty problem, yet it works better than the previous situation
- klyrs 4y agoHey, it's better than burning coal. The thing I would celebrate here is that the technology is cheap enough and available enough to enable people to work around their government's failings.
- usrusr 4y agoWhat you write is certainly not wrong, but it's also not the complete picture: unlike their contemporaries in non-failed states, those people learn electricity usage patterns that are adapted to supply. And that will also transfer well from the insular home battery to a grid with supply-dependent pricing, something which will come to every grid sooner or later. Grid addicts like us will be much less capable of adapting to that change, we will pay while those better at adapting enjoy the spoils of efficiency they deserve. To them, our inability will look like the trouble car-addicts who have never experienced walkability have with adapting to increasing fuel prices.