Sure, Christo. And the hundreds of millions of people all over the world who are doing this, have got it wrong. And you have got it right. Does that actually sound likely to you?
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Except its not free, its the cost of the hardware and installation amortised over time until it needs to be replaced. I am not sure people are pricing in whole of cycle including disposing of panels at the end of their useful life when they work out the economics

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Do you mind providing your calculations supporting why your whole of life solar system, incl industrial materials, manufacturing, installation, maintenance, and end of life disposal provides you with free power? That would be handy in assessing the economics against alternatives
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Christo is right. Solar and wind are driven by incentives created by governments. Governments created those incentives with political favour because it served them politically. Self interest groups and producers are benefactors of the political favour. That incentivises them to continue arguing and lobbying for more favour. Consumers participate in the electricity market, but their choices are constrained because Gov policy changes the relative prices, risks and availability of competing forms of generation. Remove the distortions and see what a more free market chooses.
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Meanwhile worked out coal mines and clapped coal-fired power stations sit around the landscape neglected as corporate owners restructure to evade restoration costs and governments stand by complacently…
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Sounds like car ownership to me. Yet they're sold as a vehicle of convenience.
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