alt Hacker NewsNot really. The higher proportion of renewables a country has, the more expensive the energy. See the chart on this page:
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/bjorn-lomborg-solar-wind-p...
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ZeroGravitas • yesterday at 11:27 AM
Bjorn Lomborg is a hack propagandist and that is obviously bad science.
Just look at all the unnamed points in the lower left that are actually creating the trend he claims to have found.
If you graph developed nations the correlation reverses.
Lio • yesterday at 11:19 AM
Personally, I'd take Bob Ward's analysis over Bjorn Lomborg's.
https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/more-misinforma...
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triceratops • yesterday at 4:09 PM
Fires burn wherever firefighters show up, it's weird.
Alternatively, the higher the cost of non-renewable energy in a country, the more attractive renewables are in that market.
If gas costs £1 a unit and solar is 90p, solar is profitable (especially if you get paid the gas price). If gas is 50p a unit, solar isn't going to be much of an investment.