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Originally Posted by AlanE
The following wouldn't be taking place if solar energy was as efficient as claimed. From Slate Magazine:
This directly contradicts your claim that solar power can be had for 1/4 to 1/2 the cost of fossil-fuel generated power.
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Oops for you. I guess that you made the mistake of taking the reciprocal - Solar isn't one fourth as expensive as fossil, it's four times as expensive.
This speaks to the point I made upthread - paying more for a product or service than one actually needs to pay is a form of inefficiency and when this inefficiency infects an entire economy, then there are profound ripples effects which touch all manner of things, such as competitiveness, job growth, wage growth, economic growth, social spending, deficit spending, etc.
Here's the boondoggle of "green jobs" that environmentalists have been tripping on - again, inefficiency with respect to opportunity costs. Faith and wishful thinking are very bad foundations for public policy, especially when they are anti-empirical with respect to their claims. |
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solar is not more expensive
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