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“Many of these options actually offer a better $ / Watt ratio. Meaning you get more watts / kilowatts per $ spent.”
I don’t know the boundaries here; however – the subject sure could use some hashing about since there are many popular notions that cloud the principle and discourage interest.
Thinking only in terms of cost/benefit without stepping back to see dependence/independence and perhaps even more important an ignoring of scale can, again, cloud, hide, disguise, and even falsify the reality and stifle the demand.
A look into scale, if I can communicate this accurately, blows the top off the bottle.
How about this angle:
Why do producers scale back electric production from peak production? Why produce less of a cost reducing power? One obvious yet myopic answer is demand. If, say, a peak rate could be produced year round, then, electric power could be stored and earn a long period of no production given a scale of demand or usage.
I am trying to point toward a particularly false dependence upon price. Either something pays out more than the cost or something does not pay out more than the cost. If something pays out more than the cost, then, why stop paying out more than the cost?
The myopic answer again could obviously be – no further demand. This brings me to ask anyone and I have yet found only one other person seeing this point.
As power is produced into a state of oversupply the cost reaches zero.
What happens when power is cost-less?
Purchasing power goes up.
Then – people can afford to move to mars.
The power to control the rate of currency production into a state of overabundance where costs are reaching zero is something worth looking into – unless the individual happens to survive on profits earned in the process of making power scarce.
One more angle –
A person purchasing independent power producing products may well invest big rather than ‘just enough to get by’ since the future may reward those who can generate more than they need – currently