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Fossil Fuel Interests Ramp Up Their “Solar Makes Electricity More Expensive” Falsehood (cleantechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. Fossil fuels are on the way out. The companies in possession of the resources have a vice grip over the entire planet, and they know that their time is limited. You can’t monopolize wind or the sun, and they’re afraid

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Their wealth is going to end up with a lot of "stranded assets".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I mean you can and they probably will. Unless something is easy enough to make yourself in your garage there will always be a free market to expand into and then extinguish.