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No judgement on the productive value of these modeled jobs, but it’s worth remembering that all else being equal we want to generate or store any given quantity
by twoodfin 4y ago
No judgement on the productive value of these modeled jobs, but it’s worth remembering that all else being equal we want to generate or store any given quantity of energy with less labor input rather than more.
- philipkglass 4y agoThe good news is that utility scale solar farms require less labor per megawatt hour generated than legacy sources like coal. The current jobs boom is because installation is rapidly increasing. See this post of mine from 2017 for a comparison of labor to operate already-built generating facilities: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14173844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14173844