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Thank you B🙏

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Pushing water uphill to drive a turbine is optimally efficient energy storage, and still pretty "lossy".

Anything more becomes more and more of a business scam, mostly on taxpayers, but also investors.

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Subsidy dumpster! This is the lynchpin phrase I've been looking for, and it shields us from looking too closely at who benefits from the shortage of food, health care, and housing in this Mordor economy, as Nate Hagens calls it. Thank you, B!

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I love that you referenced Pitchbook here. I see these sorts of "clean energy" announcements and articles there all the time. I think part of the issue is the subsidies, but another part that may be overlooked is that a huge number of people who are responsible for managing money are actually completely incurious about the world beyond a surface level analysis of things. They are investors-in-name-only and are really just effective at managing the logistical process of investing.

Couple that with the fact that fund managers get a decent sized guaranteed income through management fees, and you have yourselves a big time incentive problem that leads to a lot of funky activities in the market. And, naturally, a lot of good money chasing after bad (or impossible) solutions.

Though to be fair, it feels like a decent chunk of society at this point revolves around improper diagnoses of underlying issues to prime a cash funnel for grifters. Not good!!

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