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Utility solar dethrones coal as the cheapest power source in Asia

Baua Electric

With an 11% cost reduction in 2023, offshore wind costs are now competitive with coal along China’s coast and are expected to undercut gas in Japan and the Taiwan region by 2027 and 2028, respectively. Plus, it’s free to use and you won’t get sales calls until you select an installer and you share your phone number with them.

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Economics Drives Ray-Gun Resurgence

Cars That Think

Put it down partly to the rising demand for cheap antimissile defense, but it’s mainly the result of technical advances in high-energy lasers. Why are we getting ray guns only now, more than a century after H.G. Wells imagined them in his sci-fi novel The War of the Worlds ? With lasers, if you can see it, you can kill it.” www.youtube.com.

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Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

Green Car Congress

With subsidies long in place for nuclear, coal and gas in the US along with the cheap cost of production for coal and natural gas, solar is essentially competing with that $0.10/kWh The global solar market is expected to install 22 MW of electricity in 2011. kWh average cost of electricity in the United States and globally.

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