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I have heard this news many times, technically not wrong, but each time with a different metric. This time it is production over a year. It reminds me of the V
by GuB-42 2mo ago
I have heard this news many times, technically not wrong, but each time with a different metric. This time it is production over a year.
It reminds me of the Voyager probes that left the solar system half a dozen times, each time taking a different definition of what marks the edge of the solar system.
Anyways, we are now getting to sensible metrics, which is good.
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- hvb2 2mo agoIt's the sporadic good news item in a sea of bad? Moving away from fossil fuels is a big task, these are the first signs that things are happening.
- baxtr 2mo agothere is far more good news than bad news, but unfortunately the human mind reacts much more intensely to the latter.
- GuB-42 2mo agoCertainly not in news (as in newspapers). There is a reason we are saying "no news is good news". And it is not just because of the negativity bias. Things that work as they should don't make the news. I mean, take Ukraine and Poland, both European countries of a similar scale, one is at war, the other is doing well, guess the one that makes the news. I'd say the only consistent supplier of good news is science and technology (with maybe a 50/50 ratio of good to bad), and sports (for the winning team). Geopolitics is almost exclusively bad news, economics is mostly bad, the good news are often agreements that conclude a stream of bad news, such as wars and economic crisis, and then we stop talking about the thing, because it now works as it should. And then, there are crimes and disasters, which are obviously bad.
- emsign 2mo agoThat's totally fine with me. Each time it's an opportunity to be happy and proud.
- rootusrootus 2mo agoThat doesn't seem like a problem as long as the metrics chosen are trending towards greater achievements and are not just attempts at moving the goalposts.
- perpetuallunch 2mo agoIs cost of electricity to the commercial, industrial, and retail residential customer an important factor?
- whateverboat 2mo agoYes. Thanks for bringing it up. Something that is not emphasized enough is how much of the dampening effect has the renewable energy has had on the electricity prices. It is estimated that without the renewables, the electricity prices would have easily been 8ct/kWh higher and may be even upto 10 ct/kWh.
- account42 2mo agoWhich is of course not something any sane person will believe once he looks at the overwhelming volume of evidence to the contrary from countries that have not committed energy suicide.
- G0lg0thvn 2mo agoPlease provide us with a sane explanation.
- rootusrootus 2mo agoI'd like to see that overwhelming evidence. Everything I've been able to find suggests that renewables, since they have a ~zero marginal energy cost, displace the most expensive dispatchable alternatives. But wholesale pricing seems to be heavily influenced more by the highest priced energy source in the mix than the lowest, so at this point the wholesale price drop is modest (but still a drop). Retail pricing has to include all sorts of extra stuff, like paying for the local grid infrastructure, subsidies, etc, and this makes what the consumer sees on their bill have only a passing relationship to the wholesale cost. If you have a good source for something that says otherwise, I'd be genuinely interested to see it. Not that I would probably change my opinion on renewables, since I personally think cutting pollution of the air I breathe is worth paying a little extra for, but I like to be informed nonetheless.