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Originally Posted by Ecky
I don't mind paying more for clean residential electricity, but I can see it being a problem for businesses looking to be competitive. That doesn't seem to have stopped companies like IBM/Global Foundries from investing in high tech industry here, though. Looks like 7nm wafer retooling is ramping up at the local fab.
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I'm going to school for mechanical engineering right now and this year we've focused on thermodynamics and power productions and it seems like all the renewable stuff is cool but there are quite a bit of renewables that are a waste of time and tax payer money (cost of implementation, low efficiency, low returns, high cost of maintenance/ownership). Typically, people who can afford it and are well off are fine, but its poor people that really feel the hit dis-proportionally compared to everyone else. Best example: Germany being a pain in the ass to non renewables and charging huge tax rates. Can you imagine paying 30c/kWh for electricity just for the sake of being green?
https://www.reuters.com/article/germ...-idUSL8N1MZ30X