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Solar Has Crossed a Critical Economic Tipping Point | Solar now requires no more upfront capital than coal or gas to produce the same annual electricity (oilprice.com)

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[–] Octavio@piefed.social 49 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah but you have to pay for the sunshine every year that you use to power the panels. And you have to build pipelines to transport that sunshine from the faraway places where it's developed, and sometimes you have to liquefy it a load it onto gigantic tanker ships and carry it overseas, and there's always a risk of it exploding and...oh, wait. I'm thinking of the gas. Never mind.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Think of all the sunshine jobs.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago

To be fair, NG was sunshine at one point.