Originally Posted by MontanaMan
Originally Posted by Dutch
Originally Posted by RufusG
No matter how many times you type it, it's still not true. The marginal cost when it's actually running is irrelevant, unless you plan to ignore your customers the 16 hours a day the solar is useless.
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No matter how often you deny it, cost is cost. Utilization rate has nothing to do with it. Right now, today, utility size solar contracts deliver electricity to the grid at a cost $0.03 /KWH. Not for capacity, for actual product delivered. If you are familiar with the relative costs of generation, that’s half of the cost of natural gas, and a little less than half of coal. And close to a quarter of the cost of a gas peaker plant.

If you want to rely on solar, 50% of the cost can be in storage, and you’re still even.





Get back to us when that storage becomes a reality.

Until then, theoretical cost, either low or high, doesn't matter if you can't get the power when you need it.

MM



Also
It takes more energy to create the Solar than than it produces in its life span.
We pay other Country's to build the Panels and then ship them here. The shipping creates pollution as well.
The Greenies refuse to look at all of the facts when they are fed the BS.

I consider the system I built as prepaid power.
I am going to pay one way or another .

Large scale storage is a pay off scam to make certain people Rich and others Controlled.