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Producing the energy has become cheaper. Delivering however… and costs for maintaining the grid will only go up after the blackout from last year

You can double check it but I think solar is cheaper now. I was shocked as well, I thought nuclear was the cheapest still.

Most expensive way of heating water

I live in Minnesota and the majority of the power produced in my area is Wind Turbines that are all pushing 5-10 years of use. The company operating them is well past the break even point and pure profit for every watt they get now but the price of energy is higher than ever.

Except you can't choose where your energy is coming from as the grid is balanced by any means necessary and that tick box to buy only green energy is just free money for energy companies.

Yeah because companies in the US exploit everything and everyone until they get stopped (which they don't)

And probably because fossil energy gets subsidised heavily to compete with renewable energy. So on your electricity bill the fossil is cheaper but your taxes are sent there ten times.

Well currently the US is fucked anyway

Because as a general rule governments aren't efficient running services and that's fine for a while but long term that means infrastructure isn't properly maintained which leads to service malfunction, which leads to privatization because someone else can do it better and competence appears because someone else things can do it better than the other or to collapse because things don't work anymore.

Source: I am Spanish, a lot of companies were privatized after the dictatorship because they weren't efficient and infrastructure was falling apart. Privatizing allowed competence which meant someone had to invest in infrastructure to be better than the other. Problem is now governments are confabulated with some of those companies to create oligopolies. For example my city has it's own water/trash company (half private half public) so no one is allowed to bid against them; you can imagine how that is going (from paying 35€ every 3 months to paying 65€ in one year), price goes up, no one can't complain or hire a cheaper one, while with cable and phone companies since Telefonica was privatized other companies popped out and you can have cheaper and better internet/phone/tv.

They should be nonprofits, independent, but strictly non profit

How would it be cheaper?

Yeah, China is great!

All dictatorships are more efficient than democracies, so just give it a little time. Our dictator will catch up. It's our first try at fascism. Cut us some slack.

Yes, but at scale it is significantly cheaper to build larger and distribute it. It also means people don't have to over invest in their own set up just to cover their peak usage. There is also a large amount of up front capital required to build with usually years before you get back what was invested. Its also almost impossible for renters or apartment buildings to do it themselves.

Your talking points are ten years out of date. The cheapest form of baseload power now is batteries plus solar. For seasonal variations? Nuclear is so expensive that it's far cheaper to just build enough to meet your winter electricity demand and have abundant power the rest of the year.

Fission is a dead end technology that people mostly support now so they can feel a sense of contrarian intellectual superiority. It's all just vibes at this point.

Yep. Meanwhile the US has some of the cheapest and is mainly Natural Gas.