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You could say the same thing about almost any mature technology though. Meanwhile there are incredible amounts of money being made in solar. A friend has a solar installation business, he's been hiring more people year after year and is doing very well for himself and his co-founders.

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Do you understand that solar as a economic investment, and the economics of one dude that install solars, are very different things?

What a strange question. Yes, of course I understand that. But the two, even though they are 'very different things' are also intricately related in that if the one doesn't work neither does the other.

That's not true at all, just because one individual person can make a temporary, big profit in an industry, that does not mean that the industry itself is profitable. Industry has large investment costs and takes time to become profitable, sometimes it never does.

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