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I agree that it won't be anytime soon. That was the whole idea. And coal people were very good at selling delayed action.
Solar was at cost parity with coal in 1989.
As a consequence of legal fiction, standard accounting practices, 'coal' could easily make the economic argument against 'more expensive' renewables in a competitive market.
Now that a contingent of the economic community clearly understands the 'externalities' associated with 'coal', which never made it onto the 'coal' ledger sheets, they realize that coal has been the most expensive fuel all along.
And like a gift that keeps on giving, coal continues to pay losses on a daily basis.