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[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 30 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

$500M/day would represent roughly 1000 megawatts of solar farm, per day. Depending on where said farms are located that could power at least 250,000 homes. For the next 25 years. Per day.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 12 points 8 hours ago

A steady demand and generation would eventually drive down the costs (unless there's a resource scarcity), generating jobs, industries and r&d. In addition, it would also drive down power costs and with it make power-intensive production cheaper, which might retrofit into solar generation costs.

And the longer I think of this make-believe magical world where politicians do sensible things that help us, the angrier I get on our shitty reality.