Green Energy Is Cheaper…So Why Aren’t We Using It?
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Solar energy is cheaper and more abundant than fossil fuels...so why aren't we making the switch?
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Citations and Further Reading:
The importance of profit, not price, in renewable energy
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2021.1926957
The price of solar over time
https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth
https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/2023-levelized-cost-of-energyplus/
How solar got cheap
https://youtu.be/sUvaYycoWqI
Solar deployment and investment stalling/declining
https://www.iea.org/news/global-solar-pv-market-set-for-spectacular-growth-over-next-5-years
https://www.iea.org/articles/energy-transitions-indicators
Shell’s conditions
https://reports.shell.com/annual-report/2019/servicepages/downloads/files/shell_annual_report_2019.pdf
https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/electric-power/060419-shell-sees-signficant-potential-in-electricity-but-investing-with-care
https://youtu.be/VZEAgKZUNuU?t=345
Returns on wind and solar investment
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2021.1926957
How much fossil giants put into renewables
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629621001420
Solar and wind used for fossil extraction
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-22/chevron-is-installing-solar-panels-to-produce-oil-more-cheaply
Asset management firms aren’t sustainable
https://capitalaspower.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/20220200_baines_hager_from_passive_owners_to_planet_savers.pdf
Under capitalism production “is always initiated on the basis of prospective profit.”
Shaikh, A., 2016. Capitalism: competition, conflict, crises. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Renewables have increasingly narrow margins
https://coalition.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Coalition-for-Action/Publication/Coalition-for-Action_Scaling-up-RE-Investment_2018.pdf
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2021.1926957
Fossil Capital, Andreas Malm
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/135-fossil-capital
https://geosci.uchicago.edu/~moyer/GEOS24705/Readings/From_water_to_steam.pdf
Exploitation, violence in rare earth mineral mining
https://youtu.be/XCECoZBZ5aU
Where money goes in renewables
https://direct.mit.edu/glep/article/20/2/3/95047/Shadows-of-Divestment-The-Complications-of
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2021.1926957
Capitalists hate competition
https://blairfix.github.io/capital_as_power/accumulation-and-sabotage.html
“Hole in the ground surrounded by guns”
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2021/02/26/radically-progressive-degrowth-reducing-resource-use-by-eliminating-inequality/
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/03/30/the-voldemort-index/
Scarcity and oil prices
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/12/03/as-we-exhaust-our-oil-it-will-get-cheaper-but-less-affordable/
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Check out our most recent Deprogram episode on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/thedeprogram/episode-82-tankie-discourse
Solar energy is cheaper and more abundant than fossil fuels...so why aren't we making the switch?
Why Cheap Solar Won't Save Us – Second Thought
SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTS
New video every other Friday!
Follow and Support Second Thought!
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_SecondThought
Patreon: https://patreon.com/secondthought
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Citations and Further Reading:
The importance of profit, not price, in renewable energy
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2021.1926957
The price of solar over time
https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth
https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/2023-levelized-cost-of-energyplus/
How solar got cheap
https://youtu.be/sUvaYycoWqI
Solar deployment and investment stalling/declining
https://www.iea.org/news/global-solar-pv-market-set-for-spectacular-growth-over-next-5-years
https://www.iea.org/articles/energy-transitions-indicators
Shell’s conditions
https://reports.shell.com/annual-report/2019/servicepages/downloads/files/shell_annual_report_2019.pdf
https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/electric-power/060419-shell-sees-signficant-potential-in-electricity-but-investing-with-care
https://youtu.be/VZEAgKZUNuU?t=345
Returns on wind and solar investment
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2021.1926957
How much fossil giants put into renewables
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629621001420
Solar and wind used for fossil extraction
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-22/chevron-is-installing-solar-panels-to-produce-oil-more-cheaply
Asset management firms aren’t sustainable
https://capitalaspower.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/20220200_baines_hager_from_passive_owners_to_planet_savers.pdf
Under capitalism production “is always initiated on the basis of prospective profit.”
Shaikh, A., 2016. Capitalism: competition, conflict, crises. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Renewables have increasingly narrow margins
https://coalition.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Coalition-for-Action/Publication/Coalition-for-Action_Scaling-up-RE-Investment_2018.pdf
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2021.1926957
Fossil Capital, Andreas Malm
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/135-fossil-capital
https://geosci.uchicago.edu/~moyer/GEOS24705/Readings/From_water_to_steam.pdf
Exploitation, violence in rare earth mineral mining
https://youtu.be/XCECoZBZ5aU
Where money goes in renewables
https://direct.mit.edu/glep/article/20/2/3/95047/Shadows-of-Divestment-The-Complications-of
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2021.1926957
Capitalists hate competition
https://blairfix.github.io/capital_as_power/accumulation-and-sabotage.html
“Hole in the ground surrounded by guns”
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2021/02/26/radically-progressive-degrowth-reducing-resource-use-by-eliminating-inequality/
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/03/30/the-voldemort-index/
Scarcity and oil prices
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/12/03/as-we-exhaust-our-oil-it-will-get-cheaper-but-less-affordable/
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About Second Thought:
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