A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
@cwebber That reminds me, I should put the panels out.
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
@cwebber - completely agree. One thing which I've recently noticed is that it looks like green energy basically *is* solar energy now - solar growing exponentially, wind growing linearly. Maybe batteries are now cheap enough to make that happen.
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
@cwebber I had the same thought! Who'da ever thunk that Trump would #MakeSolarGreatAgain
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
@cwebber And the quickest to deploy, too.
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
@cwebber It’s amazing what solar does for regions with flaky or non-existent electric grids.
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
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And China is the provider to now profit from developing cheap solar because it didn't have a senile incompetent President who backed only oil and coal. -
A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
There is still hope in this dying world
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
@cwebber it's begs the question:
Could there be other sources of energy we don't know of?! -
A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
@cwebber @mastodonmigration As the german neoliberals (used to) say: „Der Markt regelt.“. That’s why they are fighting like crazy and their party vanishes into meaninglessness here in Germany.
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
@cwebber I really wish the state of New Mexico would lean into this and wind energy more heavily in our state. To convert just our home to solar would cost $25K. I feel like we could imagine a different future.
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
Waiter! Waiter!
Yes, more reasons to be hopeful please!! -
There is still hope in this dying world
@cwebber there is and I await Big Oil not being able to find any one individual enemy to fight for that last kWh.
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@cwebber it's begs the question:
Could there be other sources of energy we don't know of?!There are ones we could use for small projects, but not at scale really. Solar scales better than most other things we've found. From here the big win is better battery technology to store the excess solar power we CAN produce currently.
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@cwebber I had the same thought! Who'da ever thunk that Trump would #MakeSolarGreatAgain
Inadvertently at best. Sadly we could've started this journey in the 70s and Carter tried but then Reagan happened and for much the same reasons. The oil industry has been fucking us over for decades.
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
@cwebber It totally rules.
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Not downplaying just how awful those administrations fucked us over, but modern solar and batteries are generations of tech better than what we had back then. We didn't hit the "cheaper than gas" point until just the last few years.
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A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
@cwebber The irony of our “drill baby drill” prez doing more to drive renewables than just about anything else recently
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There are ones we could use for small projects, but not at scale really. Solar scales better than most other things we've found. From here the big win is better battery technology to store the excess solar power we CAN produce currently.
@darwinwoodka @cwebber true however, my intention was small scale i.e home to village level roughly 30 homes.
Can anything other than biowaste, solar and hydro electricity be used?! -
A lot of stuff is shitty but the rise of solar to be the cheapest, most efficient energy source kinda rules
@cwebber There is political push in Denmark to make it mandatory to install solar panels on larger buildings of state and local government.
