Re:The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months
by epistasis on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @06:06PM
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Right, and my point is kind of that the entrenched energy interests have been wrong time and again about solar, wind, and now storage. As well as HVDC.
They don't understand these things, they see less than half of the equation because they don't want things to change, and they only see the problems and have no interest in solving them.
IT wasn't that long ago that they were saying that solar was impossible, or that wind would never be affordable.
They were wrong about that and they will be wrong about how difficult it is going to be to adapt to lots of intermittant renewable energy powering the grid. They will complain vociferously, and they may be able to talk about some of the difficulties, but we can't trust their perspective on the big picture.
They don't understand these things, they see less than half of the equation because they don't want things to change, and they only see the problems and have no interest in solving them.
IT wasn't that long ago that they were saying that solar was impossible, or that wind would never be affordable.
They were wrong about that and they will be wrong about how difficult it is going to be to adapt to lots of intermittant renewable energy powering the grid. They will complain vociferously, and they may be able to talk about some of the difficulties, but we can't trust their perspective on the big picture.