These are the cheapest source of new electricity, and are generally cheaper than running existing coal-burning power plants

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    Fuck Trump and the billionaires who prop him up. Every gas and oil CEOs and board members should he hunted for sport.

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    So much for “all of the above” energy promises from Bergum/GOP. This is also the backdoor way of sabotaging the Big Beautiful Oligrachy bill that fought to keep subsidies for renewable projects that connected on time to grid: Make sure none of them can.

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    Suiciding the mid and long-term economic prospects of the US for the sake of populism (it’s literally already cheaper to go renewable than use fossil fuels, even the cheapest which is gas, plus the main side effects of widespread use of a technology is all those companies that pop up in that tech domain so blocking approval of renewable projects in the US, means American companies in that domain will be less likely to succeed that those in other countries).

    And this happens right alongside with betting like crazy in a technological direction - the most bubbly and with less specific uses parts of AI, such as LLMs - which is so far is deeply net negative in economic terms - it costs way more in energy than it delivers in increased efficiency - and whose rate of improvement has already fallen massivelly so is unlikely to become a net positive across the Economy - though there will certainly be specific net positive areas, just not massivelly so - were curiously, the Chinese with their models that consume much less power, have already done more to make it net positive than American companies.

    China’s work to take over as the world’s superpower has never been this easy.