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DaiPlusPlus 2 hours ago

> I do not see how the second sentence follows from the first.

Point 1 on the list is "Make Solar Energy Economical".

Solar is economical today - mostly due to China investing (and heavily subsidising) in solar for the past couple of decades; but compare to the US where certain particular big-businesses (oil companies, mostly) were instead cynically funding disinformation efforts and getting into bed with the Republican party (which dovetailed with the GOP's allying with other science-denying movements of the Bush Jr era like creationism and public-health matters with abstinence-only sex-ed and defunding gun safety research efforts) - means we're decades behind where we could have been...

Consider an alternative past, where the GOP had the backbone to resist the oil industry's corruptive influence and instead made a big bet on American Solar; it's entirely possible that instead of MAGA today we'd instead have a right-wing coalition strongly supporting solar and wind energy because they align nicely with American rugged individualism - whereas the current situation on the right is an unprincipled farce with inconsistencies in policy positions at every turn.

slongfield 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is not a particularly new struggle: Jimmy Carter installed American-made solar water panels on the White House in 1979, then Reagan tore them out.

xnx 17 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Improving panels or batteries (e.g. through automated material discovery) would make solar energy economical in a lot more regions.

holmesworcester 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Solar is not (yet) economical for reliable, year-round electricity because of storage costs. China coal use is growing again this year.

Arainach 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Solar is profitable to install at both industrial and home scale in most areas. You're moving the goalposts.

xnx 16 minutes ago | parent [-]

It would be even better if it had ROI in 2 years instead of 10 for northern installs.

marcosdumay an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Where do you find the information for 2026?