It looks like solar is starting to become an inevitability.
My favorite was the guy who noted that in resource-based industries, things get more expensive the more you use; solar and wind are manufacturing-based industries where the more you use, the less expensive things get because you get better at making it.
"The single thing that will shift people off high carbon energy into lower carbon energy is going to be the price...When that situation is broken and free market decides to go for solar it will break like a dam is broken."
The dam just broke.
The US election doesn't mean a thing for the energy market. We'll be dragged along with the rest of the world by market forces.
Hopefully we also start to see some significant replacement of fossil fuels used for transportation.
It is clear that the calculation or real EROEI is very hard when you start counting all externalities and dependencies.
Do you have any good sources of anylsis on this that you could recommend?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics#Anti-d...
So the solar revolution is more important for the rest of the world as they will be the major users not the US.
But the doom and gloom about it is almost as bad. The great thing about the USA is that in 4 years, if this guy sucks, we can change our minds again and get back to business.
This too shall pass.
...that assumes elections work, which is becoming more and more dubious. Remember that he actually lost this election by popular vote, just like Congress would be in Democratic hands if it weren't for gerrymandering. And I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to assume that this president will be even more brazen about undermining the election process than anything that's come before.
The big corporations with democratic leaning CEO could have moved investment and jobs there.
You could have moved a lot of federal jobs there too.
And with them will come the people that will guarantee better demographic distribution.
The US election system is on the stupider side IMO, but a candidate cannot lose the popular vote, because such thing as popular vote does not exist.
If a big corporation with a democratic leaning CEO moved to a state where the population was mostly republican, then the company would have a workforce that is mostly republican.
Few people align themselves with the company's CEO's values, and even if the company was made up of mostly democratic workers, few people will follow their company to another state. If my company changed states, I'd get a job with a new company, my life just isn't that portable that I can pick up and leave with ease.