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minus-squarezxqwas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·3 hours agoYou have to build and maintain the storage. Even if the electricity is free you’ll have to replace your battery once in a while and at current prices that is ludicrously expensive. It’s cheaper to pay an already built fossil fuel plant to idle with spare capacity. Give it a few years for battery technology and it may look different.
minus-squareCroquette@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 hours agoThe problem is that the planet is burning right now, but we only talk in terms of profits. Yeah the fossil fuels industry is “cheaper” because it has a shit ton of subsidies and does not include the environmental cost. We have solutions that work right now that we could start to build and maintain while reducing/eliminating the most polluting sources of energy. The solutions don’t have to be perfect, they have to be better. And if your only argument is money, then fuck off.
You have to build and maintain the storage.
Even if the electricity is free you’ll have to replace your battery once in a while and at current prices that is ludicrously expensive.
It’s cheaper to pay an already built fossil fuel plant to idle with spare capacity.
Give it a few years for battery technology and it may look different.
The problem is that the planet is burning right now, but we only talk in terms of profits.
Yeah the fossil fuels industry is “cheaper” because it has a shit ton of subsidies and does not include the environmental cost.
We have solutions that work right now that we could start to build and maintain while reducing/eliminating the most polluting sources of energy.
The solutions don’t have to be perfect, they have to be better. And if your only argument is money, then fuck off.