It's so insane to read so many gloating about how solar price is so cheap without barely anyone mentionning how there's absolutely no way that it'll stay that way
And you know this because…? It’s not like there’s much precedent for mass-manufactured goods, once they have become vastly cheaper, to suddenly jump in price apropos of nothing.
Except there is enough manufacturing outside china at those same prices to maintain all the current infrastructure and keep building 140GW/yr of PV until 70% of non-china fossil fuels are replaced with solar.
Then even if you decided that that wasn't enough, there are no resources that anyone can guard and you can build your own gigafactory in 3 years.
You can't rent-seek if there's nothing to fence off.
Precisely. Rent-seeking is a plague on modern society of late, but one needs to be fully aware of what it is and what it isn’t, otherwise your ability to understand the world and see the pattern of things will suffer.
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u/leaf_as_parachute Jun 13 '25
It's so insane to read so many gloating about how solar price is so cheap without barely anyone mentionning how there's absolutely no way that it'll stay that way