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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

you techno utopians are funny.

I remember hearing this about solar power ten years ago. And electric cars. And cloud computing, even.

It was never going to be economically viable. Always ten years away from viability. Not competitive with whatever the industry leader was at the time.

Really putting all your chips on "nothing ever changes"

[–] Cowbee_Admirer@reddthat.com 2 points 18 minutes ago

I remember hearing this about solar power ten years ago

Ten years ago Swanson's law for solar photovoltaics was well established, not comparable.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

To be fair there was and is huge push back against EVs, the US is setting itself back a couple centuries just to not admit it is viable.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca -3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You're so dense you could fuse hydrogen.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

What a low quality joke. The humor was bad too.