The days of the costs of the physical solar cells mattering went out a few years ago.
The major component costs are now labor costs and permitting.
It's like me telling you truckers will pay an extra 5 cents at the pump. The market will still price it anyway, and it will just be a sliver of a portion of the price.
Actually, you're describing the solar cycle. Wind power is strongest at night and weakest in the daytime, which is why balanced renewable systems tend to use a mix of solar and wind with hydro or gas or compressed air storage or battery for shaping.
Which actually tends to match the consumption cycle fairly closely, given the demands from industry and commercial usage and their cycles.
With the exception of very few regions, and Alaska is not one of them, it's already cheaper in most parts of North America.
If it weren't for massive tax subsidies and tax exemptions for fossil fuels, the market would have already replaced the inefficient fossil fuels with cheaper renewables.
From the viewpoint that the US is not highly welcoming of highly educated US-educated PhDs and Masters from other nations, unlike most EU nations and Canada, it makes sense that they would return to China, where they don't prop up failing fossil fuel industries and have high speed rail, instead of trying to remain in a country in denial that it's the 21st Century already.
Now, this does point out that it would be in America's interest to encourage highly-educated US-educated PhDs and Masters recipients to remain, via expedited citizenship procedures, as occurs in the EU, UK, and Canada. But that's just an objective viewpoint.
Not really. You're already paying carbon taxes. You're just not aware that they're included in the total price to buy or sell goods and services to many states (with carbon taxes), countries (with carbon taxes), and provinces (with carbon taxes).
Most trade agreements allow you to deduct the carbon taxes assessed locally first from the total carbon taxes assessed in the country you buy/sell to, so in practice, you reduce the carbon taxes you pay the foreign government, other state, or other province and the carbon taxes you pay locally go into your local economy.
It's a fiction that you don't already pay carbon taxes. You are. Every car you buy made in Germany, S Korea, China, India, Canada, Mexico, Sweden, etc already includes carbon taxes. You just don't "see" them. Your dealer and the importer pay them for you, but you ARE paying them.
Even when you buy a US car, or US oil, you are probably already paying carbon taxes. For cars it's probably imposed on between 30 and 80 percent of the final sale value. For US oil, the services used to find, process, and distribute the oil all have parts that go to carbon taxes. Maybe the drill was made in Mexico, but you don't "see" it in your final cost, but it is in fact collected and paid.
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The days of the costs of the physical solar cells mattering went out a few years ago.
The major component costs are now labor costs and permitting.
It's like me telling you truckers will pay an extra 5 cents at the pump. The market will still price it anyway, and it will just be a sliver of a portion of the price.
And I actually buy a print copy of the WSJ once or twice each week.
Just say NO!
And their population-curbing cancer-gene-enabled bioweapons
The problem is they're trying to pretend it's not as bad as it is.
We've had the capability to do this for quite a while, at least on the military side.
Remember, without massive tax subsidies and tax exemptions, fossil fuels aren't that cost effective.
People are just fearful of change: suppliers, operators, capital loans providers, and so on.
It's 2018, not 1968.
You've had 50 years to adjust.
I grew up next to Dallas. Amazon correctly chose to drop them, and the remaining choice in Texas is the correct one.
Now go play with your Nintendo Nano
C'est le meilleur choix
It does, a third of a day for four days a week during a normal summer, but not during the winter months where it provides zilch and just wears down.
Um, I just got a $115 credit for solar generation in the Winter, here in Seattle, so that's obviously untrue.
Fairly certain wind power works most of the year too.
Actually, coal plants kill more birds than wind farms, on a per Gigawatt basis. So, in point of fact, wind is more positive for birds than coal is.
Actually, you're describing the solar cycle. Wind power is strongest at night and weakest in the daytime, which is why balanced renewable systems tend to use a mix of solar and wind with hydro or gas or compressed air storage or battery for shaping.
Which actually tends to match the consumption cycle fairly closely, given the demands from industry and commercial usage and their cycles.
With the exception of very few regions, and Alaska is not one of them, it's already cheaper in most parts of North America.
If it weren't for massive tax subsidies and tax exemptions for fossil fuels, the market would have already replaced the inefficient fossil fuels with cheaper renewables.
Seriously, you old people think you have to spend tens of thousands on PCs, the same on monitors, and then thousands on software packages.
Roll your own for hundreds and stop wasting $ on license fees.
Sorry, but that's what this means.
TANFL
From the viewpoint that the US is not highly welcoming of highly educated US-educated PhDs and Masters from other nations, unlike most EU nations and Canada, it makes sense that they would return to China, where they don't prop up failing fossil fuel industries and have high speed rail, instead of trying to remain in a country in denial that it's the 21st Century already.
Now, this does point out that it would be in America's interest to encourage highly-educated US-educated PhDs and Masters recipients to remain, via expedited citizenship procedures, as occurs in the EU, UK, and Canada. But that's just an objective viewpoint.
Sounds to me like you could get faster performance by building Linux AMD blade servers for a heck of a lot less money and they would perform better.
At least, that's my takeaway.
Not really. You're already paying carbon taxes. You're just not aware that they're included in the total price to buy or sell goods and services to many states (with carbon taxes), countries (with carbon taxes), and provinces (with carbon taxes).
Most trade agreements allow you to deduct the carbon taxes assessed locally first from the total carbon taxes assessed in the country you buy/sell to, so in practice, you reduce the carbon taxes you pay the foreign government, other state, or other province and the carbon taxes you pay locally go into your local economy.
It's a fiction that you don't already pay carbon taxes. You are. Every car you buy made in Germany, S Korea, China, India, Canada, Mexico, Sweden, etc already includes carbon taxes. You just don't "see" them. Your dealer and the importer pay them for you, but you ARE paying them.
Even when you buy a US car, or US oil, you are probably already paying carbon taxes. For cars it's probably imposed on between 30 and 80 percent of the final sale value. For US oil, the services used to find, process, and distribute the oil all have parts that go to carbon taxes. Maybe the drill was made in Mexico, but you don't "see" it in your final cost, but it is in fact collected and paid.
Oh, wait, I meant Cortana.
While that is a valid point, this one was, in fact, lost. It's not a good thing for anyone.
Olympics are expensive, y'all.
And if you believe that was an accident, you'll believe James did himself in.
Cold War III
And dial the NSA and the other eight "security" organizations the US controls which put the holes in encryption in the first place.
It's not hard, FBI.
And stop letting them compromise chip design.
Lots of Russian bots will become homeless if you can ID their accounts aren't actually from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, or Iran.
Think of the poor starving Russian twitter and FB bots that will be affected by this!
More than 1000 deaths from that.