Sigh, all I see is panacea thinking…I want dank memes.
But here’s some reality for you that’ll destroy my karma.
The market naturally drives energy toward the lowest price because buyers choose the cheapest reliable option and producers must compete. Inefficient sources fade while the most cost effective ones grow. This happens automatically through supply and demand.
Many green technologies, depend on heavy subsidies and huge upfront costs. They promise clean and limitless power, but the real costs of materials, storage, and maintenance make them far more expensive than they seem. This makes them feel less like practical solutions and more like a comforting promise being sold as a cure for everything.
If your energy company could create very cheap energy it would.
Lmfao you speak with authority despite it being complete bullshit.
“Heavy subsidies and huge upfront costs” applies far far more to oil and gas than to anything else. It’s only due to the massive amount of technological and economic inertia behind oil and gas that it is still around.
For building new power generation, utility-scale solar and onshore wind are now almost universally cheaper than new coal, oil, or gas-fired power plants. This threshold was passed in most of the world around the mid-2010s and has become undeniable in the 2020s.
Solar is now often cheaper than existing fossil fuel plants: In many regions, it’s now cheaper to build and operate a brand-new solar farm than to just keep running an existing coal or gas plant.
“The market” doesn’t operate like you get taught as a child. The vast majority of economic decisions are made by those in power to ensure they stay in power. It makes little sense for a business person to cannabalise their own industry. They have vertically integrated and are invested in the supply chain from start to finish, and there’s no benefit to them for things to change. It’s far easier to just impede competitors than change the course of behemoth corporations.
Sigh, all I see is panacea thinking…I want dank memes.
But here’s some reality for you that’ll destroy my karma.
The market naturally drives energy toward the lowest price because buyers choose the cheapest reliable option and producers must compete. Inefficient sources fade while the most cost effective ones grow. This happens automatically through supply and demand.
Many green technologies, depend on heavy subsidies and huge upfront costs. They promise clean and limitless power, but the real costs of materials, storage, and maintenance make them far more expensive than they seem. This makes them feel less like practical solutions and more like a comforting promise being sold as a cure for everything.
If your energy company could create very cheap energy it would.
Energy (read: oil) companies don’t invest in “green energy” for the same reason pharma companies don’t research cures
You wanna mention fossil fuel subsidies too?
Lmfao you speak with authority despite it being complete bullshit.
“Heavy subsidies and huge upfront costs” applies far far more to oil and gas than to anything else. It’s only due to the massive amount of technological and economic inertia behind oil and gas that it is still around.
For building new power generation, utility-scale solar and onshore wind are now almost universally cheaper than new coal, oil, or gas-fired power plants. This threshold was passed in most of the world around the mid-2010s and has become undeniable in the 2020s.
Solar is now often cheaper than existing fossil fuel plants: In many regions, it’s now cheaper to build and operate a brand-new solar farm than to just keep running an existing coal or gas plant.
“The market” doesn’t operate like you get taught as a child. The vast majority of economic decisions are made by those in power to ensure they stay in power. It makes little sense for a business person to cannabalise their own industry. They have vertically integrated and are invested in the supply chain from start to finish, and there’s no benefit to them for things to change. It’s far easier to just impede competitors than change the course of behemoth corporations.