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Retrictoday at 6:23 AM1 replyview on HN

Retail prices obscure the underlying economics via taxes and subsidies.

Here the wholesale prices are far more relevant economically.


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nandomrumbertoday at 7:10 AM

Indeed.

Still, what good is free energy to anyone if the retail price has only one trajectory.

If politics is a significant cost factor, no amount of technology is going to fix that.

Or, as Jimmy Carr put it: But you go, yeah, you can have net zero, as long as you don't give a fuck about poor people, right? If you don't give a fuck about poor people, of course we can do net zero. - https://youtu.be/H3FwqPkPSHE

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