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Not so. Virtually this whole section is made up of RW anti-Green clowns.Although anybody who's been looking at news about solar power over the years knows that it has become the cheapest.
I've watched it for 10 years.
Leaving out 'Old Rocks' recent thread starts this is a 90% anti-green orgy.
Many do not believe in GW much less AGW and start idiotic threads to that effect daily. ("It's cold in Boise today.. so it can't be warming")
USMB is 80% RW, mostly trolls.
Not as big as the coal and coal mines... and transport roads.That is not the bid deal it would seem though.
1) The numbers probably include equipment and maintenance, but I don't know if the numbers include the cost of the land. Solar requires quite a bit of space.
Dirty too is a unseen cost. It's in you house dust filters/lungs.
You got it backwards.2) A lot of the cost of coal power plants is in the plant itself. Are there numbers for just maintenance + coal consumed?
It's solar who's biggest cost is Front-Loaded, and Coal which needs a steady feeder stock for the life of the plant.
Ergo these the low interest rates of the last 10 years have helped solar amortize that cost over time.
The great majority of new power generation in the USA is renewables.
Not for large energy generating plants. That's the whole point of this/these articles.So incentives are probably still needed. I suspect the cheapest way is to continue giving credits for putting solar panels on homes.
And one could say that about solar maybe 5 years ago but not now. Costs have come down dramatically/efficiency up. Look at the chart above. Down 90% in a decade.
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