silence7Washington Post gutting its climate team | Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.
It’s so silly. Even if you don’t understand the science of climate change (which isn’t that fucking hard to understand) you can definitely understand this;
Solar PV + Battery: ~2.0–2.7 USD/W (~2044 $/kW) Solar PV standalone: ~1.33–2.74 USD/W Wind (onshore): ~1.46–5.9 USD/W Hydro: ~3.0–5.9 USD/W Coal: ~3.1–5.5 USD/W Natural Gas (combined cycle): ~1.06–1.2 USD/W Oil/peakers (simple turbines): ~0.8–2.6 USD/W Nuclear: ~6.7–8.0 USD/W
Even with batteries solar has the greatest fricken ROI in this list at the cheapest cost.
Fossil fuels are finite. After you pay back your solar panel capex your opex is barely anything and for the next 20-30 you have free fucking energy.
Jeebus, even if you don’t give a shit about the environment picking anything but renewables is like the dumbest decision you can use your money on.
It may become cheaper once they cut all the various safety and environmental regulations