simplysublime

Hacker News is always the first to think of things, because nobody else ever thinks about things or has ideas, especially not the scientists studying renewable energy.

Respectfully, who cares? Humanity needs electricity, and "cost" is an entirely made-up thing. "Sorry, it was too expensive to save civilization" is going to be the most obnoxious epitaph for Homo sapiens...

Wait until they see what happens when all of their exploitable employees get cooked lol.

Cost is an artificial construct (see: oil subsidies, corn subsidies, EV subsidies, and so on). "It's too expensive!" is such an uncreative response to technology we desperately need to stop overheating the planet.

We also don't have to generate the entirety of our energy usage from one source.

I mean, puff pieces exist, and basically every media outlet is a corporate mouthpiece. Don't be surprised by this.

Man, it's so unfortunate that saving the planet just isn't profitable.