Son worked for a NYC company that installed solar for free to homeowner who then bought electric when needed at lower than ConEd cost.
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Still requires subsidy. The grid isn't set up to handle this stuff, & the power ain't cheap per Kwh.
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Get the grid ready. Solar efficiency is soaring.
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They are getting the grid ready. Retrofitting a grid takes decades. But intermittency makes solar expensive.
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Battery storage technology is also improving rapidly.
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Actually, it's really not. Batteries are shockingly slow to improve compared to almost everything else. It may be a physical limit.
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That's why so much of the improvement in your phone consists of making the phone use less power, instead of making the battery itself better
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Denmark manages to offload its intermittent windpower because it pays Norway to manipulate its hydro flow. Not a viable solution most places
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Also, as I don't tire of mentioning, Denmark has the highest domestic electricity prices in the world.
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Fair, but "Denmark has the highest cost of X" is true for most X.
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There is that
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