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This plus falling oil prices is going to set back PV for a long time.
by hindsightbias 12y ago
This plus falling oil prices is going to set back PV for a long time.
- _broody 12y agoOil is only going to fall long enough for Saudi Arabia and the US to bankrupt Russia, though (and they're pretty far along into it already).
- rjsw 12y agoOr for Saudi Arabia to bankrupt US fracking companies.
- saryant 12y agoA few of the companies might get shaken out, the ones stuck with use-it-or-lose-it land rights, but the rest can shut in production easily enough and wait for prices to rise again. Drilling a well with fracking is really cheap and incredibly fast which makes the industry fairly resilient to changing prices.
- alexqgb 12y agoOr for Saudi Arabia to forestall the re-emergence of Iran.
- rab_oof 12y agoThere are several pipeline projects in the US and Middle East that are in flux, and this would be an opportune time to kill them.
- saryant 12y agoExcept that oil accounts for all of 1% of US electricity generation. http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=427&t=3 http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=427&t=3
- bdcs 12y agoYes but PV is one quarter the electricity production of even petroleum.
- AnthonyMouse 12y agoNatural gas is a petroleum product.
- rab_oof 12y agoIt's often burnt off because the quality / quantity / opportunity costs for capture and resale are often insufficiently compared to other extracted products.