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Solar is not cost effective on the scale of dollars. That doesn't mean it's not cost effective though.

The dollar is a debt-based system which means when something is bought with a dollar that thing is assumed to be owned and loaned by someone. No one owns the sun, it's free and basically infinite.

Oil is the commodity which creates the most demand for and thus the most value out of the dollar. 6 of the 7 richest companies in the world in terms of revenue are oil and gas companies.

So with all things considered the cost effectiveness of solar power to the dollar is not a valid comparison because what you are basically doing is comparing the cost benefit of solar for oil production and the ability to create debt.

>Even after all this time the Sun never says to the Earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that, it lights the whole sky.

-Hafez




It takes time and money (among other resources) to convert the energy emitted by the sun into a form that we can use.

Are you suggesting that we should not pay the companies who do the conversion, routing, and storage of this energy because nobody owns the sun?


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