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Re:Wind now competes with fossil fuels, and solar almost does by thaumasiotes on Friday October 09, 2015 @02:21AM (#10358460)
> Even without subsidies, there is no reason to ever build another coal or oil fired generation facility.

You seem to be assuming that world demand for power can never rise. I find that... unlikely.

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Re:Wind now competes with fossil fuels, and solar almost does by toomuchtodo on Friday October 09, 2015 @04:13PM (#10362982)
The IEA indicates that world demand for power will rise, but at a much slower pace than historically due to the level of efficiencies we're realizing due to technology:

http://www.iea.org/textbase/npsum/weo2014sum.pdf

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