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I wasn't expecting this comment in Hacker News. I can only agree. Indeed, this is an investment with a risk/return profile of a utility, not the technology.
by antr 14y ago
I wasn't expecting this comment in Hacker News. I can only agree. Indeed, this is an investment with a risk/return profile of a utility, not the technology.
- colechristensen 14y agoThe telling point, and why this is on HN, is the important threshold that a seasoned investor can buy solar to make money for the purpose of making money.
- underdown 14y ago... thanks to government subsidies. This is still not an industry that is profitable on its own.
- colechristensen 14y agoIt seems a fair argument until you notice that oil is subsidized too though the relationship of these subsidies and how they compete with eachother is complicated and not worth debating.