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Pokepokalypse on July 20, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Peter Thiel on Progress and Stagnation

>“Clean tech” has become a euphemism for “energy too expensive to afford,”

. . . oh the non-clean is cheap for you. Expensive for the rest of us.

novok on July 20, 2020 [–]

Some of these quotes are 8-10 years old, referencing events older than that. Back then solar wasn't that good of an idea financially and you had scandals like Solyndra. Now it's finally beating the cheapest dirty energy sources.

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