World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind

Re:World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper T... by toomuchtodo on Thursday December 15, 2016 @09:46PM (#13190676)

Lots of places around the world not the US. Those buyers will continue to drag the price of solar down.

The US election doesn't mean a thing for the energy market. We'll be dragged along with the rest of the world by market forces.

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Re:World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper T... by jacobolus on Thursday December 15, 2016 @10:07PM (#13190766)

Furthermore, there is a world market for other energy sources, which are all somewhat fungible. So if solar takes off around the world, fossil fuel demand will slack and prices will continue to drop making their extraction less viable.

Hopefully we also start to see some significant replacement of fossil fuels used for transportation.

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Re:World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper T... by sitkack on Thursday December 15, 2016 @10:57PM (#13190952)

We need to use solar to pay for the extraction and transportation of fossil fuels.

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Re:World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper T... by throwayawnotime on Friday December 16, 2016 @03:24AM (#13191867)

LOL, very good point. Maybe for the back of the classroom you could clarify?

It is clear that the calculation or real EROEI is very hard when you start counting all externalities and dependencies.

Do you have any good sources of anylsis on this that you could recommend?

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Re:World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper T... by john_reel on Sunday December 18, 2016 @12:35AM (#13204519)

What do those terms mean?

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Re:World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper T... by vog on Friday December 16, 2016 @12:57AM (#13191365)

I don't get that. Could you elaborate?

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