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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Energy hipsters among us, do feel free to comment on this article. I will start: I hope it is true.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I don’t know how they are dealing with the full-cycle costs however. I need to re-read and get up to speed on assumed life cycle of their systems. Most of these articles tend to look only at initial startup costs and cost of capital. Finance gurus might comment, but as I understand it, rising capital costs tend to favor ground-based solar, since the plants are not so capital-intensive, ja? We don’t need to scale them way the hell up to get economies of scale on those?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This topic has to have been studied to death. What we need are pointers to the credible sources.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=568 height=621 style='width:5.9166in;height:6.4687in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D25A9E.82B1AAE0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>