Yeah, I want to hear about estimating competitor sales too.
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I don't want to enter into debates about the rest of the comment, but this is demonstratebly false in Europe from my experience as a EU citizen keeping an eye on funding programs and public discourse.
A quick google search says that the 2012 EC report on energy subsidies concluded close to 15 billion euros in subsidies for solar alone. The report DOES NOT include tax credits and DOES NOT include preferential lending support.
In addition, German citizen's bills have skyrocketed to the 2nd place (behind Denmark) because of solar power. German business refuses to eat up the solar power as part of a package because it will make them uncompetitive. This sentiment echoes around Europe, so I suggest you check your facts.
I don't even want to START on Chinese equipment manufacturers, many of whom face bankruptcy after the government dialed back on subsidies.
In all honesty, your opinion seems completely false based on the evidence I've seen.
All the talk about solar energy is making unfair comparisons and people are eating it up because it aligns with their wishful thinking. Just take as an example this article. The minister said that solar energy might be cheaper compared to energy from NEW coal plants. But everyone in here heard something else.
There are multiple people saying "sounds too good to be true, but it isn't. Solar is great because I said so!". This guy provides evidence to support that it is not true and gets downvoted? Wut?
For the umptieth time HN hears only what it wants to hear.
"I think a new coal plant would give you costlier power than a solar plant"
He thinks a NEW plant would give you costlier energy. Secondly, aren't the solar projects subsidized in a BIG way? I have seen many smart people say that solar is a sham. They say it's just an opportunist's play. Entrepreneurs want to get on the government's tit and the politicians are happy to portray themselves as environmentally friendly in front of the increasingly global warming wary voters.
If anyone can argue against that, please speak up. I haven't seen anything other than wishful thinking and naive people patting themselves on the back because someone got their hands on tax money.
I wouldn't hold my breath.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realpolitik
There is no other way in politics. Never has been, never will be.
And only god knows what would happen in Africa.
[1]Except in the rarest of occasions. edit: they also serve as a means to pretend and extort, too, but that's besides the point.
It is one thing for me to say "let's kill Bill". It is an entirely different thing for me and you to surveil his movements, his schedule, to develop code names, to discuss scenarios for action, to procure means to assassinate him. You can show evidence of serious intent in a conspiracy.
Not a rhetorical question.
edit: where thought = imaginary
"X" is pretty great nowadays, you just need to enable some obscure option.
And that's the problem of linux. It's like that for everything.
Q:Do the Poor Waste Transfers on Booze and Cigarettes?
A: No
Measurement: Survey asking how much money you spend on alchol.
Justification: For more sophisticated gaming and to deliver the mostly negative and insignificant results we observe, households would need to remember how much they reported at the last survey (often one year ago), and report a similar but slightly lower number. This seems unlikely.
JUST LOL. With shoddy logic like that, I can make everything to sound like a great idea.
That's a bold assertion. Care to back this up? Because you know, I have an entire peninsula full of people to demonstrate that this is false.
You think legislators do not understand the subject because of what they said?
You believe what the politicians say?
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