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by troorl 1421 days ago
> Cost per MW compared to renewables (~$150 vs ~$40 and falling).

Do you count in all the subsidies the renewables get from governments, including the production of the solar panels/wind mills, land ownership, utilities and all kinds of tax cuts and preferential treatment? In my country billionaires own massive solar farms and make tons of money at the expense of everyone else.

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Generally speaking the costs in those comparisons are usually without subsidies. However some subsidies are difficult to disentangle from the costs. For instance it’s difficult for nuclear power plants to get insurance, so often states take that responsibility.

Can you tell where you are from?

Oil has way more subsidies than renewables. By far

I'm rooting for billionaires to own more and more solar farms please. Let them buy more newspapers and "think-tanks"

Because I'd really like to live on that world where oil has no subsidies, occupies no land and it gets magically transported throught the country