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Drawn from what John H. Cochrane and Hannah Ritchie said
batteries Storage as the thing that decides how much intermittent generation is worth building.
On the topicDo tariffs do what they are imposed to do?under our view: Protection costs something, and it is counted in the wrong column
Their wordsThe average European and UK voter, once he or she moves on from immigration, will notice how Europe and the UK have made energy unaffordable, stopped its growth-exactly as degrowthers wish-and deindustrialized, on the altar of climate policies that do nothing to improve the climate.
Where this was said
↗Climate turning pointgrumpy-economist.com
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Their wordsAnother factor that is killing Europe’s competitiveness — not just for batteries but for many industrial products — is the high electricity costs.
Where this was said
↗Why are solar panels and batteries from China so cheap?sustainabilitybynumbers.com
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Ritchie and Cochrane both hold that high electricity prices are killing European industrial competitiveness — one counting battery factory costs, the other counting votes. Krugman says Europe is keeping up with the United States by the measures that matter most. A continent can be losing its heavy industry and holding its living standards, which is roughly the position all three would have to accept.
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