Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 Profile picture
Writes about economics, posts about rabbits. For serious opinions/analysis, read my blog: https://t.co/KfUxUlCYPz

Jan 7, 2022, 11 tweets

These slides by @ramez are the most optimistic, exciting thing you'll see today. Maybe all week. Maybe all year.

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Look at this graph of renewable electricity costs!!

And look at this graph of learning curves for all sorts of batteries!!

And look how bad the IEA has been at forecasting the growth of solar!

Actually the IEA is just really bad at this.

See also: Batteries and the EIA.

Now look at this chart of when building NEW solar plants is expected to be cheaper than continuing to operate EXISTING coal and gas plants in various regions!

Now look at how fast electric vehicles are taking over!

And look how much cheaper electric cars are to build!

And look at how much cheaper electric cars are to OWN!

Folks...we're going to win this thing.

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