africa is building a whole lot of solar panels to secure its energy supply. it’s cheaper than fossil fuels, decentralized, doesn’t require much of a grid. and works even when the officials are corrupted.
africa is building a whole lot of solar panels to secure its energy supply. it’s cheaper than fossil fuels, decentralized, doesn’t require much of a grid. and works even when the officials are corrupted.
i remember the discussion 20 years ago when people were discussing whether renewables would ever be cheaper than fossil fuels. the (prevailing) argument (that (almost) everyone agreed to) was “nah, because producing something is always more difficult than just extracting it and shipping it around”
oh how the tides have turned.
It’s seriously the dumbest argument. Yeah solar panels are pricy, but you buy them once.
well, tbf, you also buy the oil extraction tower once.
Then they leave them there and make the tax payers pay to clean them up
But the output of that oil extractor everytime you fill up at the pump or run the gas generators.