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Solar energy has yet to get an order of magnitude even cheaper .Researchers claim a breakthrough in polymer solar cells; cheap & easy to manufacture solar cells that can be printed on rolls of plastic (www.pv-magazine.com)
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[–] Beacon@fedia.io 9 points 9 hours ago

  1. Title is incorrect, solar has decreased more than an order of magnitude in cost. In fact it's gone down by more than TWO orders of magnitude. - https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/solar-panel-prices-have-fallen-by-around-20-every-time-global-capacity-doubled

  2. Title suggests that coming down an order of magnitude is somehow a minimum bar that has to be crossed, but that's nonsense, no one does that. In the same time span as in the graph linked above, how much do you think the cost of fossil fuels has gone down since 1975?