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Staeff t1_ivoyt3p wrote

Reply to comment by taggedandgagged in More people are employed in clean energy than in fossil fuels by kickresume

The required labor of renewables gets less over the lifetime of an installation as you don't need to keep a whole mining/drilling/shipping operation going to provide fuel.

But besides that what would it matter that you need more labor? As long as it's cheaper overall to produce renewable energy the number of jobs doesn't really mean anything.

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taggedandgagged t1_ivoz1xf wrote

Its not cheaper overall and has so many more employees because of the necessary human labor to get anything within a magnitude of fossil fuel production. Or we could just go nuclear green and get over the shitty wind turbines already

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Staeff t1_ivozdrt wrote

https://www.irena.org/publications/2022/Jul/Renewable-Power-Generation-Costs-in-2021

>The lifetime cost per kWh of new solar and wind capacity added in Europe in 2021 will average at least four to six times less than the marginal generating costs of fossil fuels in 2022.
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>Globally, new renewable capacity added in 2021 could reduce electricity generation costs in 2022 by at least USD 55 billion.
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>Between January and May 2022 in Europe, solar and wind generation, alone, avoided fossil fuel imports of at least USD 50 billion.

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