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hollerithyesterday at 9:58 PM1 replyview on HN

Can you explain how that would have worked with the much less efficient and much more expensive solar panels available in the 70s?


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Arodexyesterday at 10:30 PM

All the R&D and industrial capacity building we have done since the 70s could have been accelerated if we had invested in it as much as we invested in nuclear, or oil, or gas, or coal. With public money.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/5-hidden-ways-the-g...