Frankly more jobs is a good thing. Where I live there are many people looking for work / barely scraping by.
Solar Power: Lots of Jobs per KWH Is Bad, Not Good
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#12[2017]
> why do sound economic analysis when you can parrot a junk study that supports your political view?
Quoted from a comment on the OP and getting it right.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep. That article was spouting disingenuous nonsense in the best possible interpretation I could read into it.
I suspect (but don't know) that you can replace "article" with "site" comfortably there...
What's wrong with that site? I've been listening to the podcast hosted there, Econtalk, for the last year+.
Do they have some bias in the grander scheme of economics? The guests and topics always seem extremely varied, and the host actually asks challenging and interactive questions to the guests.
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#14Building out new infrastructure is more labor intensive than operating existing infrastructure, more on this story at 11.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suspect (but don't know) that you can replace "article" with "site" comfortably there...
What's wrong with that site? I've been listening to the podcast hosted there, Econtalk, for the last year+. Do they have some bias in the grander scheme of economics? The guests and topics always seem extremely varied, and the host actually asks challenging and interactive questions to the guests.
No idea about the podcast, I'll give a listen though based on your comments.
My comment was on reviewing a few of the articles, the sloppiness exhibited in this one was common. I guess it's more a preaching-to-the-converted sort of area than trying to do a good job of presenting arguments.
Perhaps I didn't give it a fair shake - I'm definitely not one to enjoy watching people grinding their favorite axes, particularly if they are uncharitable to other viewpoints while simultaneously presenting their own assumptions as canon.
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#16Lots of jobs per kWh are only bad if you're a large energy provider looking for maximum profitability. It doesn't mean that solar power is going to be more expensive for consumers. Consumers buy a bunch of panels and pay for installation and maintenance. Given that there is enough sun around, those panels will eventually pay themselves off.
Creating those jobs is also great because it spreads the wealth way more evenly, leading to a healthier economy.
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#17He needs to go back and do econ 101 again, he's conflating two different things.
If coal, gas, and solar workers all quite tomorrow, the "power" from coal and gas would go out, but most solar installations would keep on producing regardless.
ie, the majority of solar workers are building capacity, not operating the system.
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#18Most workers in solar are needed to install new systems. Once a system is installed it will require only minimal scheduled maintenance for the next 25 years. After installation the system is wealth. Further, building lots of small generation systems (e.g., rooftop solar) will inherently require more labor than building a few large generation systems (e.g., traditional power plants). One can argue that distributed pow…
Plus, how much does it cost in man-hours to clean up negative external effects of traditional power plants vs solar? Need to include that as well.