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Originally Posted by MTI
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What that article barely touches on is the amount of energy used to create the batteries needed for electric cars, much less the waste created.
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I think people deeply underestimate what a huge problem this day-night issue is if you’re trying to design an energy system involving solar technology that’s more than just a hobby. You know, the sun shines during the day, and people turn their air conditioners on during the day, so you can catch some of that peaking load, particularly if you get enough subsidies. It’s cute, you know, it’s nice. But the economics are so, so far from making sense. And yet that’s where subsidies are going now. We’re putting 90 percent of the subsidies in deployment—this is true in Europe and the United States—not in R&D. And so unfortunately you get technologies that, no matter how much of them you buy, there’s no path to being economical. You need fundamental breakthroughs, which come more out of basic research.
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I'm in agreement with Gates, that subsidies are being used incorrectly. If they were to invest that money in true R&D, like what was done with the nuclear program in the beginning, then a quality product could be had...at a cheaper price in the long run. Investing in R&D doesn't hamper the creative side of thinking, it actually gives it more of a boost. Investing in the deployment side puts too many rules and regulations in mix, making it costly.
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