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Solar power and batteries are significantly cheaper now compared to then because of a boom in Chinese PV manufacturing, and thanks to Joe Biden are facing stiff

• gumby 3y ago
  But back then PV cost the same for everyone: fixed terrestrial, tracker, floating, etc. This is true today: in both cases everybody is buying the same panels. The argument for floating is and was: available, generally unshadowed land, already flat, with power connection often already there, and lower deployment. So what’s different now? I’d love for this to succeed.
  • conductr 3y ago
    PV costs were same for all but may have been higher than alternative energy sources and that shift has been occurring more recently. I’d also guess that shear will to think outside the box has increased. We’ve seen some things the last 15 years when it comes to the actual effects of climate change. The 15 years prior to that the climate change story could still be denied (by some) and I’d argue that now we’ve all seen and felt it and it’s pretty undeniable (without some bias).
  • galaxyLogic 3y ago
    > PV cost the same for everyone PV now costs less for everyone. That can and seems to make the difference in whether industrial scale deployment is cheap enough for commercial entities to invest. Or maybe this was just a novel although simple idea: Use the pool at powerplants to put the cells there. Maybe powerplants didn't think of it because they were opposed to solar ideologically.