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by somethoughts 401 days ago
A fun theory I have is that once you start seeing industry trade group sponsored lobbyists and influence marketing campaigns matching the level of spending of entrenched industries, you can probably start lowering the subsidies for said industry.

Like once we start referring to the solar industry trade group as Big Solar or Big Clean Energy...
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Calwestjobs 401 days ago
subsidies are bad but they are there not for big solar, but for big not smart brains which need to see freaking solar panels on neighbors roof to want that too.

solar + 12 hour LiFePO storage is cheaper than nuclear TCO, in all US territories south of canada. today ( except tariffs, so... who benefits? big solar or big russia, big UAE ? ) get ......! XD

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/elon-musk...

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