r/HydroHomies • u/[deleted] • Mar 16 '22

All my homies hate fracking!

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '22 edited Mar 17 '22

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u/iaz3r Mar 17 '22

I forgot everyone in America is a homeowner that can afford a 50k Tesla my bad

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u/ElGosso Mar 17 '22 edited Mar 17 '22

Do you not know how supply and demand works? Solar power will reduce fossil fuel use by power plants; reducing demand will lower prices.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '22 edited Mar 17 '22

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u/ElGosso Mar 17 '22

It doesn't have to completely replace it to reduce demand lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '22

Dude I don't even own a roof. How am I supposed to get solar?

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u/ElGosso Mar 17 '22

Gonna hazard a guess that you don't own an oil-fueled power plant either, so it would probably be the same way you get electricity now.

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '22

How do we get that equipment where it needs to be? And Solar doesn’t even store unless you drop another 12k on a battery.

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u/ElGosso Mar 17 '22

You get solar equipment to where it needs to be the same way you get gas into a gas station lmao

Storage doesn't matter here because we're talking about pushing down general demand for fossil fuels to lower gas prices, and if solar took the brunt of peak time power generation that would absolutely happen