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Are they also so cheap without subsidies? I feel like without subsidies and without carbon taxes, they are no match for fossil fuels.



Yes, those graphs show the pure productions costs. Which is actually not fair, because coal might have low production costs, but the damage to the atmosphere isn't included in the calculation, so carbon taxes are not artificial, but partially express the actual costs of coal.




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