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Re:Solar Surpasses Gas and Wind as Biggest Source of New U.S... by cgriswald on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @09:34AM (#17293054)
"New" is relative, hence the Bill Gates picking up the penny example. Sure, it's a true statement the second he picks up the penny, but it's not a meaningful one. In the case of the article, we are talking about a single quarter.
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Re:Solar Surpasses Gas and Wind as Biggest Source of New U.S... by thinkcontext on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @10:01AM (#17293288)
"New" is certainly meaningful. It gives an indication of where the market is going, investors want this information. It definitely meaningful to GE's natural gas turbine division, which has had big losses since demand has been less than they have forecasted

"Renewables boom is a bust for gas equipment suppliers like GE" https://www.utilitydive.com/news/renewables-boom-is-a-bust-f...

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Re:Solar Surpasses Gas and Wind as Biggest Source of New U.S... by cgriswald on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @10:24AM (#17293492)
Sure, it has a meaning, but it does not have the meaning implied by the title, hence clickbait, which was paidleaf's point.
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Re:Solar Surpasses Gas and Wind as Biggest Source of New U.S... by thinkcontext on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @10:32AM (#17293575)
The title says "new" and the article discusses new generation. Paidleaf said the title makes an implication about overall generation, how does it do that?
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Re:Solar Surpasses Gas and Wind as Biggest Source of New U.S... by ceejayoz on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @09:37AM (#17293095)
It is meaningful here, though. If Gates started showing indications that he was primarily going to pick up pennies from now on, that'd have important implications and questions raised.
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Re:Solar Surpasses Gas and Wind as Biggest Source of New U.S... by durkie on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @09:50AM (#17293197)
The article could have made a stronger case about the broader trends: although this is referring only to a single quarter's worth of new capacity in the US, this trend has been happening on a longer term in many other countries.
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