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The Skeptics Guide #895 - Sep 3 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Why Did Solar Prices Plummet So Much?

Solar power is the cheapest way to make electricity of any method ever devised. And it's getting cheaper. A study looked at, looked at more than two thousand, 900 predictions of how much solar power was going to decrease between two thousand and ten and two thousand and 20. Not a single one predicted a greater than six % reduction. That's more than twice double the highest estimate. But why did solar prices plum it so much? We're talking mainly about silicon here, we'll get to that in a second. There are three other categories of solar panels that i want to talk about: peroski, organic and then what i'm calling the wild cardsresearch out there if they actually

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