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Re:We're going to need a lot of solar panels by robertlagrant on Saturday July 23, 2022 @02:16PM (#32205967)
People thinking renewables wouldn't be cheaper aren't people who don't want renewables. Why would they even get a mention?.

I'm not convinced enough people know that renewables are cheaper to make the latter claim you're making. For example, in some places as soon as renewables come online they get priority access to demand, and other fuel sources get the leftovers. That's still a subsidy, just by another name. So I don't know if they are cheaper.

Finally, the point about renewables isn't only cost, it's also reliability. The subsidy I just mentioned falsely obviates the need for renewables to be reliable from a cost perspective, but that doesn't mean that needing a high base load (and higher the more we move to electric vehicles) isn't the most important thing to supply.

And none of that is about people "not wanting renewables".

Re:We're going to need a lot of solar panels by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @09:21AM (#32237898)
'That's still a subsidy, just by another name. So I don't know if they are cheaper.'

yeah, but fossil fuels get subsidies of all sorts, not just polluting for free, but even things like leaving the british taxpayer to pickup the bill for cleaning up old infrastructure they no longer need

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/25/british-tax...