Is this not just a symptom of oil prices dropping? Solar has to remain competitively priced or the industry is screwed
The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months
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Re: The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months
#52This might seem like a weird thing to complain about, but am I the only person who is sick to death of headlines of the form "X just did Y"? It's the "just" I object to. It seems to be some sort of trend over the last couple of years. I think it's to make it seem more dramatic or something. It just happened! My god! In this case it is especially ridiculous, since the article describes something that happened over the…
Maybe people like fresh things?
Here's an A/B test I recently ran on some notification messages. There were two messages, only difference is the word "new" in there.
A: "You received a message from the admins about your Facebook page."
B: "You received a new message from the admins about your Facebook page."
About 1000 samples per group. Not sure if noise.
Re: The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months
#53This might seem like a weird thing to complain about, but am I the only person who is sick to death of headlines of the form "X just did Y"? It's the "just" I object to. It seems to be some sort of trend over the last couple of years. I think it's to make it seem more dramatic or something. It just happened! My god! In this case it is especially ridiculous, since the article describes something that happened over the…
I was just (sorry) gonna post the same thing. 'Just' and '16 months' are pretty far apart in my mind, I found the headline quite awkward to read because of it.
Yes. I think headline writers are trying to force things into this form.
Re: The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
At which point would it be financially beneficial for a farmer to turn a field into a solar farm rather than plant a crop? I have no knowledge in economics of either so I couldn't even estimate.
Or do both! Grow mushrooms under the panels.
Raise panels up a bit and can graze animals underneath them too.
Re: The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months
#55Is this not just a symptom of oil prices dropping? Solar has to remain competitively priced or the industry is screwed
An entire industry can't just lower prices to meet a competitor.
Re: The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months
#56And here in the USA some states are punishing solar customers who sell their energy, by taxing them on infrastructure costs, to protect the big energy companies. Their reasoning for taxing them is to "maintain the lines and equipment". The counter-argument to that is, "customers who consume pay taxes and fee's to maintain the lines, and on top of that, the government is giving them tax breaks to help "maintain the li…
Which states do you think have the worst solar laws?
Re: The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months
#57This might seem like a weird thing to complain about, but am I the only person who is sick to death of headlines of the form "X just did Y"? It's the "just" I object to. It seems to be some sort of trend over the last couple of years. I think it's to make it seem more dramatic or something. It just happened! My god! In this case it is especially ridiculous, since the article describes something that happened over the…
Maybe people like fresh things? Here's an A/B test I recently ran on some notification messages. There were two messages, only difference is the word "new" in there. A: "You received a message from the admins about your Facebook page." B: "You received a new message from the admins about your Facebook page." A clickthrough 15.64%, B clickthrough 15.95%. About 1000 samples per group. Not sure if noise.
.3% on 1k? That's three people.. Yes, noise.
Re: The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months
#58This might seem like a weird thing to complain about, but am I the only person who is sick to death of headlines of the form "X just did Y"? It's the "just" I object to. It seems to be some sort of trend over the last couple of years. I think it's to make it seem more dramatic or something. It just happened! My god! In this case it is especially ridiculous, since the article describes something that happened over the…
I think it's just a more casual and less formal way of saying something happened. I can't picture an illustrious newspaper of yesteryear ever writing a headline of the form "X just did Y". But due to the rise of social media and the progressive commoditization (not using either of those terms as an epithet as so many do!) of news stories, users respond better to headlines that read like it's something their friend would say rather than being the headline of a newspaper.
I don't read Buzzfeed, the pioneer (I think?) of this trend, but I read the similar Polygon gaming news site, and two of its five lead stories at the moment sport conversational style headlines: "The Hearthstone legendary cards you must craft ASAP" and "The film Apocalypse could have looked like this".
Re: The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months
#59This might seem like a weird thing to complain about, but am I the only person who is sick to death of headlines of the form "X just did Y"? It's the "just" I object to. It seems to be some sort of trend over the last couple of years. I think it's to make it seem more dramatic or something. It just happened! My god! In this case it is especially ridiculous, since the article describes something that happened over the…
Maybe people like fresh things? Here's an A/B test I recently ran on some notification messages. There were two messages, only difference is the word "new" in there. A: "You received a message from the admins about your Facebook page." B: "You received a new message from the admins about your Facebook page." A clickthrough 15.64%, B clickthrough 15.95%. About 1000 samples per group. Not sure if noise.
https://www.mccallum-layton.co.uk/tools/statistic-calculator...
Sample Size: 1000
Observed Proportion: 15.64%
Confidence Level: 95%
Confidence Interval: ±2.25
Range for the true population proportion: 13.39% to 17.89%
Re: The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a lot of farmland and ranch land in the US that shouldn't be farmland or ranch land. They're too dry, too hot, and competing for water resources with people and natural (sometimes endangered) ecosystems. So, maybe it's something that should be encouraged; the food those farms and ranches produce would need to be replaced by food grown in more appropriate climates, and we'd need to rethink our recent "local fo…
Hah! Only if dictatorship could ordain things to be done so correctly. Unfortunately we live in a capitalistic democracy.
Where do you live? How come your goverment isn't able to control taxation, or its regulatory environment?