• tallwookie@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    corporations will always utilize the cheapest method to generate revenue - legislating for or against that isnt going to do anyone any favors. it may be beneficial to instead offer tax deductions for utilizing solar or wind over coal, that seemed to work pretty well for the individual adoption of solar power…

    for electrical generating companies, sometimes the cheapest method is coal/oil and sometimes it isnt. the infrastructure for using both already exists, after all. I think there was a headline recently that mentioned that solar power production was nearing competition levels in the USA with coal recently, or had surpassed it (in the summer months). until power storage tech has sufficiently matured you cant actually expect anyone who lives where it freezes to switch from oil/propane heat to electric heating in the winter months - and that’s well over half of the country.

    • Shinhoshi@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      legislating for or against that isnt going to do anyone any favors. it may be beneficial to instead offer tax deductions

      It took you less than a sentence to contradict yourself. You just demonstrated a way legislation could help.

      • tallwookie@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        no, i said that it MAY be beneficial. it may not be. I have no idea. no one does - in fact there’s nothing but supposition.

        a multiyear study will need to be performed by some impartial 3rd party and then presumably it would be another 15 to 20 years as corporations slowly switch to some alternate method (if it’s cheaper or better, but the jury is out on that one).