I don’t think it was even a matter of research, or it least it hasn’t been for a while, more it’s a matter of scaling production and competitive supply chains.
If there are 15 steps to produce a panel and you need to make 20% profit to pay off the capital expense and cover fixed costs, then the final product is going to be expensive, if the scale is large enough to afford to only make 1% profit at every step things get cheap.
This article seems like a great example of “watch the hands not the mouth.”
Why are publishing this story now? What is the narrative trying to be constructed? What waters are they trying to muddy? What is this conspiracy bait trying to distract from? Who is this for?
Just looking at the policies they’ve supported and advocated for… I’d say that talarico is maybe a little bit more progressive in some ways.
I think in policy terms they’re roughly equal, it’s just a question of who will bring out more voters.
“So… we’re running out of interceptor missiles… but… we’re sure they’ll run out of shaheds any day now!”
mean while 3 guys in a shed in Iran are sand casting another lawn mower engine block
Like one side here has prepared and planned extensively to fight this war, with great awareness of what the opponent can do and built a strategy to work with in the constraints of what they can do to best exploit the vulnerabilities of their opponent. The other side just did a line of coke and smashed their forehead in to a big red button that says “fuck this shit up”.
One of the biggest uses case for AI software will be as an accountability sink “I didn’t tell it to do the thing I obviously wanted it to do, so I’m not liable for the outcome.”
But gas is also more profitable than ever for those involved. Any increase in price gets passed along to down stream consumers, but the margins have increased.
And since the people deciding what electrical generation are getting put in are not the ones paying the final bill, they have no reason to pursue solar at scale.
Some places are installing it at scale, but it’s almost always due to some public mandate, or because the people putting it in are the ones paying for the final power.