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The price of the PV modules only makes up like 1/3 the cost of a utility scale solar installation and like 1/5 the cost of residential installations. A 10-15% increase in module cost will not slow solar adoption that much. The solar train will keep chugging along.

We'll eventually get to a point where we generate 5% of the world's power with solar and people will still underestimate its impact and will still claim its too expensive to scale...




This is actually accelerating and there's no real reason it should stop. I think it's going to happen slowly and then all at once.


We're already there, now that solar+storage is cheaper than coal.

Even my local electricity coop, which sends me climate change denial newsletters every month[1][2], is buying solar.

[1] https://ulfheim.net/files/currentwv.pdf

[2] https://ulfheim.net/files/CurrentWV3.pdf


Really? What's the rest of the cost from?




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