| > Also, considering solar subsidies have collapsed throughout the world, especially since 2016, it's far more likely solar has lost ground. One need only look at the data to see you are mistaken. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country Global installed PV capacity has more than doubled since 2016, and now accounts for 3% of total electricity consumption. > It isn't It obviously is. PV costs fell by a factor of 5 in a decade; that's about a factor of 2 in four years. You would have us believe that dropping the cost of PV by a factor of ~2 would make no difference. But this is clearly not true. We are seeing record low PV bids from all over the world. The most recent eye opener was from Abu Dhabi, where are 22 km^2 project was bid to deliver unsubsidized energy at $0.0135/kWh. This is many times cheaper than the power from the new nuclear plants being constructed in the Gulf region, and is perhaps the cheapest source of electrical energy on the planet. https://cleantechnica.com/2020/06/08/1-35-cents-kwh-record-a... > 5 times nothing is still nothing. You know. You seem to be another person who doesn't understand how exponential growth works. Solar is 3% of world electric consumption now; we are just 5 doubling times away from dominance. That's 20 years at the current rate of doubling. With demonstrated experience curves that will drive the cost of PV energy below $0.01/kWh in much of the world. Ultimately, to legitimately gaslight you, your cognitive failure is to assume that things can't change quickly, and that your prejudices from a few years ago remain valid, even as the facts that underpinned them have vanished. |
Correction: more like 15 years.