Thread by @gbponz

Thread: I want to put this thought of mine past my friend @ramella_f : there is an "acid test" about what thrives or wanes.(/)
@liberioltre @nglinsman @luisbaram @AndreaGiuricin

https://twitter.com/AllanFell4/status/1359414661439918083

#Italy, the last dwelling of Eastern European style communism, is an ideal litmus test to check if something is, as indicated, "on its deathbed" or not, since we consistently disregard intimation against state subsidies.(/)

Hence, it makes sense to turn the whole system on its head and think things through this way:
1. sectors which are net payers are thriving;
2. sectors which are net recipients are failures.
(/)

The only condition is that systems have already passed from the research/prototype stage to actual industrialization. And under this admittedly simplistic system, the results are:(/)

1. Hydrocarbons = great success. Any wind/solar plant, being inherently unreliable, imposes the build/maintenance of an equivalent idle hydrocarbon power plant. The reverse is never true.

2. wind/solar Renewable = failure. not even the most die hard hare krishnas prefigure a world where they would survive without strong continuing mandate.