Solar becoming cheaper, capacity going up combined with batteries becoming cheaper and energy density going up - we’re trending towards unlocking new futures that were previously inaccessible - an interesting time for sure

I was just reading about it this past week - The Economist also published a very bullish series of articles on the exponential growth in solar power generation and how cheap and abundant energy will transform the world.

If we can get energy costs to be negligible, and with no meaningful externalities like we have with GHG, we’ll finally be nearer to a Kardashev type 1 civilization

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I was just reading about it this past week - The Economist also published a very bullish series of articles on the exponential growth in solar power generation and how cheap and abundant energy will transform the world.

If we can get energy costs to be negligible, and with no meaningful externalities like we have with GHG, we’ll finally be nearer to a Kardashev type 1 civilization 

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/06/20/the-exponential-growth-of-solar-power-will-change-the-world

But is a major land use problem, converting ag land and also destroying extensive habitat and killing species.

But is a major land use problem, converting ag land and also destroying extensive habitat and killing species.  

https://x.com/jamesmelville/status/1803901381226496162?s=46&t=XAPv4UeOd4-EnJhIaqmyjg

Well this is rather timely: https://hackmd.io/@sbacha/mev-maxxing-california-power-pricing-policy