• Linechecker@monero.town
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    11 months ago

    That’s great for them, I hope it was worth it in the end. And that would work great in a desert and southern California, but it won’t work to well in most of the USA due to weather.

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      11 months ago

      Solar panels are so obscenely cheap that their profitability curve works in a ton of weather conditions you wouldn’t expect.

      The fact that it’s so expensive in the US is entirely decoupled from their manufacturing cost.

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        11 months ago

        Then why is it over $35k to get them installed on a house’s roof? And still I’d need to be plugged into the grid.

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          11 months ago

          The costs in the US are completely fucked. Partially because of tariffs on imports, partially because of bullshit regulations that protect the large existing players, and partially because American workers are just, frankly, less efficient.