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minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·7 hours ago you techno utopians are funny. I remember hearing this about solar power ten years ago. And electric cars. And cloud computing, even. It was never going to be economically viable. Always ten years away from viability. Not competitive with whatever the industry leader was at the time. Really putting all your chips on “nothing ever changes”
minus-squareCowbee_Admirer@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 hours ago I remember hearing this about solar power ten years ago Ten years ago Swanson’s law for solar photovoltaics was well established, not comparable.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours ago“It’s only sunny during the day” is a line uttered ad nauseum by people who didn’t see lithium batteries falling through the same price drop.
minus-squareSquizzy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 hours agoTo be fair there was and is huge push back against EVs, the US is setting itself back a couple centuries just to not admit it is viable.
minus-squareHugeNerd@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down7·7 hours agoYou’re so dense you could fuse hydrogen.
minus-squareRubberElectrons@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-27 hours agoWhat a low quality joke. The humor was bad too.
I remember hearing this about solar power ten years ago. And electric cars. And cloud computing, even.
It was never going to be economically viable. Always ten years away from viability. Not competitive with whatever the industry leader was at the time.
Really putting all your chips on “nothing ever changes”
Ten years ago Swanson’s law for solar photovoltaics was well established, not comparable.
“It’s only sunny during the day” is a line uttered ad nauseum by people who didn’t see lithium batteries falling through the same price drop.
To be fair there was and is huge push back against EVs, the US is setting itself back a couple centuries just to not admit it is viable.
You’re so dense you could fuse hydrogen.
What a low quality joke. The humor was bad too.