Green Energy Is Cheaper…So Why Aren’t We Using It?
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Citations and Further Reading:
The importance of profit, not price, in renewable energy
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
The price of solar over time
https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-rene...
https://www.lazard.com/research-insig...
How solar got cheap
• How solar energy got so cheap, and wh...
Solar deployment and investment stalling/declining
https://www.iea.org/news/global-solar...
https://www.iea.org/articles/energy-t...
Shell’s conditions
https://reports.shell.com/annual-repo...
https://www.spglobal.com/commodityins...
• Royal Dutch Shell CEO on 2020 Commitm...
Returns on wind and solar investment
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
How much fossil giants put into renewables
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Solar and wind used for fossil extraction
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...
Asset management firms aren’t sustainable
https://capitalaspower.com/wp-content...
Under capitalism production “is always initiated on the basis of prospective profit.”
Shaikh, A., 2016. Capitalism: competition, conflict, crises. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Renewables have increasingly narrow margins
https://coalition.irena.org/-/media/F...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
Fossil Capital, Andreas Malm
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/prod...
https://geosci.uchicago.edu/~moyer/GE...
Exploitation, violence in rare earth mineral mining
• The Dark Cost of Electric Cars
Where money goes in renewables
https://direct.mit.edu/glep/article/2...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...
Capitalists hate competition
https://blairfix.github.io/capital_as...
“Hole in the ground surrounded by guns”
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2...
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2...
Scarcity and oil prices
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2...
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