• xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    This is a clear social good.

    If it threatens economic hardship on solar power producers then it’d be extremely rational for the government to subsidize those companies.

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      5 months ago

      If the problem is that energy is too cheap, then the power grid should be entirely nationalized. We don’t need to prop up their profits.

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        5 months ago

        I’m all for nationalization[1] but Germany hasn’t indicated that’s a direction they’d like to go in - it’d be absolutely terrible if this clear good ended up collapsing the green energy market and forcing a nove back to fossil fuels though.

        1. Actually, specifically in Germany’s case, I’m not in favor of nationalization since something is seriously fucked up w.r.t. their energy policy. I don’t trust the people who just shuttered all the nuclear reactors.
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      5 months ago

      It’s just a question of shifting load. As electric cars become more common you could program the residential and parking chargers to only charge when electricity is free and stuff like that.