I love this chart showing ~30% year on year growth of solar deployment. What, in your opinion, would most help to increase that rate? Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics …pic.twitter.com/aPFtVLlFHO
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The exciting thing about giga is that the cost of production is about 50% better than the next best option (IIRC), which is a jump of maybe 6 years of "business as usual". That's what I meant by one more gigafactory and the processes will be in place for cheap batteries.
Thanks for clarifying, I missed that point. Also made me realize I need to understand the right way(s) to calculate the amortized cost of solar + battery + disposal, to compare to standard base load.
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Amusing: the Gigafactory cost $6 billion. So you could build a thousand for $6 trillion (hopefully less, with economies of scale). Which isn't ridiculous on the scale of the world energy industry...
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Giga cost $6b because it's the first. I imagine that future expansions of the factory will be maybe 10% of that for each replication of production. No need to duplicate mistakes, of which there were plenty!
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