• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    24 hours ago

    Solar is more efficient. The corporations will move over to the most efficient power source regardless of what the administration may or may not want. Continuing to use coal just to appease Trump is stupid.

    Anyway they can just lie and say that they are using coal for everything, it’s not like anyone is going to check

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      20 hours ago

      Bold of you to try to make a distinction between this admin and corporations. But of course, they’ll hedge. My point is that they do so uphill and slowly, without the research, subsidy/tax incentives and media praise that would typically accelerate progress towards such an obvious next step

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        17 hours ago

        Companies tend to be international. No matter what they might be telling the Trump administration in the United States if they’ve got solar desires in other parts of the world they’re going to pursue them without having to prostrate themselves at the altar of idiocy. Hell, they might get praise in other countries for pursuing solar.

        So they know the economic benefits and they know their benefits would be doubled if they were operating in the US as well.

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        15 hours ago

        Those corporations are happy with the Hormuz situation you think? More likely they let grandpa shit his pants on TV because the current idiocracy is even more corrupt than the previous oligarchy.

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      16 hours ago

      The current problem with mass solar plants is that they lose a good chunk of the stored energy before it is distributed to where it goes. Obviously far better than coal, but the panels need to be at the source of where they need to go, hence why roof top solar panels on buildings are great idea. Wind power is a lot more efficient, but it isn’t like we can all plonk big windmills on our roofs.

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        6 hours ago

        Solar energy isn’t magic. Power efficiency losses are the same for all power generation sources.