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Sun Solution: Solar Fast Becoming World’s Cheapest Electricity Source

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Solar Energy has always been a no-brainer for most of the world. A few areas of the world would need a more sophisticated mix of renewable types, i.e. to use their brains just a little bit. The only safe nuclear power is the sun.
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From CommonDreams.org:
Sun Solution Rises as Solar Fast Becoming World’s Cheapest Electricity Source
Published on Friday, December 16, 2016 by Common Dreams
‘Solar investment has gone from nothing—literally nothing—like five years ago to quite a lot’ by Nadia Prupis, staff writer

For the first time, solar power is becoming the cheapest form of electricity production in the world, according to new statistics from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) released Thursday.

While unsubsidized solar has occasionally done better than coal and gas in individual projects, 2016 marked the first time that the renewable energy source has out-performed fossil fuels on a large scale—and new solar projects…

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