I understand there is installation, maintenance and servicing costs, but shouldn’t the free power from the sun, wind and tidal eventually pay this off and start providing free power?
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Even if we had nearly infinite free energy from fusion, and could copy paste that over the whole world right now, the infrastructure itself degrades over time.
It gets more expensive to do basic stuff. We still rely on copper, steel, wood, human labor. Those aren’t getting any cheaper.
We need to set the cost of electricity appropriately to make sure the infrastructure’s future
is fully funded.
It’s a massive problem if utility companies fuck up and suddenly can’t pay for the basics like maintenance crews and new transformers and tree trimming or other reliability countermeasures
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