Re:Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day
by ndhbxyd on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @01:03PM
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They dont talk about rebound effect. When energy gets cheap/free people produce more, consume more, waste more.
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Re:Solar Energy Saves Europeans $135M a Day
by parineum on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @01:25PM
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Cheap energy is what drives innovation.
You'd never have cheap solar if we didn't have cheap coal first.
The problems of today will be solved by more energy consumption (desalinization or carbon capture, for example), not less.
Innovation is "waste" until it creates something new.