Yeah haha I came here to laugh too. And leave coal sounds funny too

my dylexic brain read it as "US soldier will pass wind in 2025 and leaves coal dust soon after.."

holycrap wtf did they feed them as part of military experiment or wtf is going on???

That's been the joke of Solar for a while. Engineers could have told you all the way back in the 1970s (really, the 1910s) that it costs less money to leave a big plate out in the bright sun than to drill a giant hole and hope there's enough spicy rocks at the bottom of it to justify the expense.

We should have crested this hill a lot sooner, but the heavy emphasis on subsidized fossil fuels during the 80s, 90s, and 00s kept these fuels artificially cheap. Meanwhile, fossil fuel firms actually did invest in Green Energy R&D but only for the purpose of erecting "patent thickets" that would hinder competitive growth of these alternatives.

This “patent thicket” can create barriers to innovative low-carbon technologies, particularly in markets requiring expensive licensing fees or with complex patent litigation (Cannuscio 2008). A strengthened IPRP can increase market concentration and reduce competition (Liu et al. 2018), with large corporations able to maintain market control in such environments through patents on key technologies. This control not only restricts the entry of emerging low-carbon technologies into the market but also perpetuates the reliance on existing high-carbon technologies.

This has lead to big surges in the development and deployment of Green Energy grids outside of the countries doing most of the cutting edge research. Americans are only now catching up.

The current regime could not less about cost. They will probably stamp this out.

Would that be considered breaking news?

Are you a renewable resource?

Username checks out.

Mmmmmmmmmm beefy!

To be fair, Florida building codes are pretty much static electricity holding cardboard together.

Yes, FPL has done a lot to prevent rooftop solar, but calling it "almost free" is not correct. Rooftop solar still comes with significant upfront costs. The weather of Florida degrades panels quicker with non-trivial odds of hurricane damage. Finally, Southwestern states receive much more solar irradiance.

If you are willing to be pragmatic and want solar in Florida, FPL's solar together program is your best option. Like it or not, utility grade solar is 1/3 the LCOE.

Had to read it twice to understand what they WANTED to say

I also always call him Dear Leader. We can't normalize these behaviors from a president, and using the "Dear Leader" title makes it unambiguously clear that his selfish actions are not presidential.

It's the dumbest possible reaction to this news, so he probably will

SoCal has a huge amount of wind and solar right now. Utility sized battery installations are going in to deal with the times those two aren't producing.

Batteries

That's actually a problem

Is it? Wind is 10% and solar is 4%

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-in-the-us.php

It's not really a 'problem.'

If push came to shove, we could just wait before putting the panels online.

Lol they've already announced funding (or intent to fund?) for reviving coal mining

It's perfect

See, you can build coal plants in poor/black areas, so you don't have to see the pollution, nor your kids have to get cancer like those silly poors. And then you don't have to put up with woke shit like windmills. Sigh.

I can ride a bike to a coal plant from my house. Thing's almost as ugly as the five-over-one across the street from my house.

still passing wind though...