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My favorite take on this sort of issue: "Can we just get the 90% done first?" [1] The faster we build solar, the better. We can sort out lots of things along t

My favorite take on this sort of issue: "Can we just get the 90% done first?" [1] The faster we build solar, the better. We can sort out lots of things along the way. [1] https://twitter.com/JigarShahDC/status/1701228390735602048?t=WDqAWxihgPXqUU-vUDF-pw&s=19 https://twitter.com/JigarShahDC/status/1701228390735602048?t...

throwaway892238 3y ago
Go ahead and build out all the solar possible. Then not have any way to distribute it, balance the load, recoup the cost from customers, supplant new energy demand outside of a narrow band of peak sunlight hours. Then not be able to pay back all the loans you took on building it out. Then cause the state to pay for the defaulted loans. Then have the unmaintained infrastructure break down and become a writeoff. Then have the economy slowly go downhill due to wasted govt investments, lack of jobs, lack of new investment, and literally lack of power (a shuttered coal plant isn't a flip of a switch to turn back on). It is not enough to merely fill bids for new generation contracts. There's this assumption that just because you build it, everything else will come. This is a dangerously shortsighted view of the world that only people hoping to win a quick buck on a stock price increase will sell you on. Anybody pushing this idea is vested in a green energy company. A nation isn't a start-up. There are real-world consequences to running before you can walk. People need to come to grips with this or we're all gonna suffer the consequences.
- itishappy 3y ago
  Holy slippery slope Batman! Was there a suggestion here or just the fear of uncertainty? The world is filled with uncertain and dangerously shortsighted ideas. Our current power grid has been unintentionally (arguable) geo-engineering the planet for more than a century. Whoopsie daisy. You're right, the world isn't a startup; there's more to life than financial incentives. I have a lot more tolerance for risk when it comes to the profits of green energy corporations than I do with our collective future.
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throwaway892238 3y ago

Go ahead and build out all the solar possible. Then not have any way to distribute it, balance the load, recoup the cost from customers, supplant new energy demand outside of a narrow band of peak sunlight hours. Then not be able to pay back all the loans you took on building it out. Then cause the state to pay for the defaulted loans. Then have the unmaintained infrastructure break down and become a writeoff. Then have the economy slowly go downhill due to wasted govt investments, lack of jobs, lack of new investment, and literally lack of power (a shuttered coal plant isn't a flip of a switch to turn back on). It is not enough to merely fill bids for new generation contracts. There's this assumption that just because you build it, everything else will come. This is a dangerously shortsighted view of the world that only people hoping to win a quick buck on a stock price increase will sell you on. Anybody pushing this idea is vested in a green energy company. A nation isn't a start-up. There are real-world consequences to running before you can walk. People need to come to grips with this or we're all gonna suffer the consequences.

itishappy 3y ago
Holy slippery slope Batman! Was there a suggestion here or just the fear of uncertainty? The world is filled with uncertain and dangerously shortsighted ideas. Our current power grid has been unintentionally (arguable) geo-engineering the planet for more than a century. Whoopsie daisy. You're right, the world isn't a startup; there's more to life than financial incentives. I have a lot more tolerance for risk when it comes to the profits of green energy corporations than I do with our collective future.
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