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Originally Posted by dennis in se pa View Post
It will be interesting to watch this play out.

Solar? Wind? Tides? I wondered as a child why the power of the ocean was not used for something. And it is constant. Solar will become like Moore's Law of computers. The panels will become efficient and cheap. And no transmission costs will cause them to win out along with wind power.
But, they do not work at night. So you also need storage.

The reason Solar is cheap right now is that a lot of panels are on the market and there just aren't any buyers. Companies are going bankrupt, and the panels they have in stock are being sold for pennies on the dollar.
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