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JuniperMesos 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: American solar farms

But it's unreliable, and needs a lot of battery tech + overbuilding to make it reliable. Can people be confident that building the array will in and of itself make their electricity bills go down?

PaulDavisThe1st 10 months ago | [–]

Even with those additional costs, it is still arguably the cheapest generation technology.

adgjlsfhk1 10 months ago | [–]

if people can't be confident about this it's only because a bunch of grifters and oil company propaganda. The math here is pretty easy.

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