alt Hacker NewsSolar can be deployed by hundreds of thousands of individual efforts and financing at the same time, with almost no bureaucracy. It starts to produce electricity basically the same day.
I can't imagine anything being able to compete with that for speed and scale - or costs, for that matter. Once deployed it's basically free.
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zahlman • today at 12:42 PM
> Solar can be deployed... with almost no bureaucracy.
It can be.
Unless existing bureaucracy doesn't want that.
api • today at 1:23 PM
A lot of the opposition to it is vibes based at this point.
Big industrial projects. Big power plants. Big finance. Real men.
It’s silly. If you want a real men trip get into body building and MMA or something and use solar power.
The issue is that works perfectly well when solar is a small % of the grid, but when that number grows, then you need grid scale solutions and coordination for things to continue working well. And that requires both technical skill and political will.