Everyone loves to talk about solar being the "cheapest power ever" — until you start doing the actual math.
Here's what nobody mentions: once you hit the 1 GW threshold, things fall apart fast. Add in storage infrastructure, backup generation capacity, and grid integration expenses, and suddenly that "cheap" energy never pays for itself.
The bigger you scale, the worse the economics get. It's not a tech problem — it's a system design flaw that nobody wants to admit out loud.
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HodlOrRegret
· 50m ago
The seller's rhetoric—if you really pour money into infrastructure, you'll be left dumbfounded.
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blockBoy
· 12-05 19:06
Well... to put it simply, the bigger the scale, the bigger the loss. Sounds like the fundraising story of some projects.
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SelfStaking
· 12-05 19:01
The thing about solar energy is, it sounds great, but once you do the math, you wake up to reality.
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GasFeeCry
· 12-05 18:54
Starting to hype up solar energy again? Wake up, everyone can see that costs skyrocket once the scale goes up.
Everyone loves to talk about solar being the "cheapest power ever" — until you start doing the actual math.
Here's what nobody mentions: once you hit the 1 GW threshold, things fall apart fast. Add in storage infrastructure, backup generation capacity, and grid integration expenses, and suddenly that "cheap" energy never pays for itself.
The bigger you scale, the worse the economics get. It's not a tech problem — it's a system design flaw that nobody wants to admit out loud.