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Originally Posted by aerohead

I located this reference as well:
Photovoltaics Today and Tomorrow, by H.M. Hubbard, Director, Solar Energy Research Institute, Golden, Colorado, SCIENCE, VOL. 244, 21 April 1989.
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As of 1989, Coal and Solar PV were of equal cost, $ 0.30-kWh.
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References:
Solar Energy Research Institute
Bell Telephone Laboratories
National Science Foundation
US Department of Energy ( DOE ) National Photovoltaics Program, Stanford University.
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc., New York.
University of New South Wales, Australia.
Atlantic Richfield Company ( ARCO )
ARCO Solar Inc.
Pacific Gas & Electric, Davis, California test site.
Chronar Corporation, San Diego, California.
SeaWest Power Systems, San Diego, California.
Hespiria Plains solar farm, ARCO Solar, Inc..
Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
US Patent Office.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CalTech, Pasadena, California.
Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, Washington.
American Chemical Society.
Photovoltaic Energy Systems, Casanova, Virginia.
'Social Costs of Energy Consumption,' O. Hohmeyer, ( Springer-Verlag, N.Y., 1988 ).
K.W. Boras, personal communication.
Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, California.
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C..
Florida Solar Energy Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois.
Secretariat of International PVSEC-2, Tokyo, Japan.

Amazing how corrupt everyone becomes when they allow ideology to replace reason.

Solar was never cheaper than coal. The only way it gets cheaper is to artificially inflate the cost of coal, or hide the costs of solar in the accounting bucket of other generation sources.

How would you like to be connected to this power station? Your washing machine will speed up and slow down erratically as the available sunlight constantly changes. Make sure you slowly increase electricity use starting around 10am, and be completely done with electricity by 6:30pm.



100% of people and sources saying solar is cheaper is 100% wrong, regardless of their reputation, which should be dirt in light of the fact that no utility is offering to lower electricity costs for their consumers because they went 100% solar.

That's the argument kill-shot. There's nothing further to discuss. There's no comeback.