• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Think the point is that it represents an added cost not modeled in the infographic. It’s really the curse of incremental infrastructure cost, the LNG infrastructure sunk costs would be untenable but they’ve already been spent. So now solar, however unfairly, has that added infrastructure cost to consider.

    The weird thing are solar nimbys. A while back I was reading about a big bunch of solar intended for the Mojave. Perfect, useless wasteland that should be a slam dunk for solar. But NIMBYs said that they would be an eyesore and hurt Vegas tourism. So they proposed installing on Mesas, out of sight. Then they still complained that skydivers could see it.