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by expedition32 3 days ago
Yes we know the solution is infrastructure. The question is who gets to pay for it.

In America that seems to be the dying small town whose only economic value is cheap land.

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Infrastructure is an investment with an ROI. Fuel is an expense that delivers energy once and that is never recovered. The only relevant debate here is on how to finance the relative attractive investment for renewables and over how long it delivers that ROI.

That varies per region but this is a sector that is now about 2x the level of investment for fossil fuel related infrastructure. A lot of which is increasingly looking like the ROI might never happen.

> over how long it delivers that ROI

In the US, this is moot if that time period is more than 3 months.