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Why will energy costs trend to zero?


Renewables will keep getting more efficient and cheaper to install, batteries will continue to get cheaper, at some point they'll crack fusion. Prices go negative or zero in several places already (West Texas wind energy overnight, solar in Chile). The question seems less "when will we get abundant, virtually free clean energy" and more "will we do it in time to avoid climate collapse".


Is this satire?


I've met people like this and they seem to always have a disaster on their hands.

Probably because their companies spend so much time deciding which task should be prioritized and having meetings about it that nobody can get actual work done.


They fall below. Thank you for asking.


Only experience America has is losing wars



That is so frickin cool!


Thanks!


Thank you for putting this together. I live in an area that has terrible traffic patterns for pedestrians and I always suspected it had a higher than usual fatality density. Now I know for sure!


If the lesson you want corporate depositors to learn is that in the United States, any dollar beyond 250K in an account can evaporate overnight, than be prepared for a lot more bank runs in the immediate future.


The lesson is to mitigate this risk with insurance, account structures and other things.

I think the lesson is also don’t bank with banks doing shady, dumb things. And that’s a valuable lesson that people with over $250k should already know and not need to be taught.


What did SVB do that was shady and dumb?


Looked into it further, they didn't really do anything shady, but they did fail to hedge their interest rate risk with swaps, which is dumb.


This should not come as a surprise to anyone.


Your talking about some of the richest and most well cared for people on the planet, not the average person


that is correct.


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