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Wacari | on: In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices
David Roberts does not have an EE degree and misunderstands anything related to power system operations. Great for positive vibes and LCOE parading tho.
cinntaile | parent | next
You could try using arguments instead of an appeal to authority fallacy?
0cf8612b2e1e | parent | next
Good thing he just interviews the technical experts who do. He more or less just gives people in the energy industry a megaphone to discuss the things they are doing.
dataengineer56 | parent | next
What does "LCOE" stand for?
collinmcnulty | root | parent | next
Levelized cost of electricity. All the costs that go into producing from a given source (capex and opex) divided by the total power generated.
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stoneman24 | root | parent
Perhaps Low Cost Of Electricity?
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red-iron-pine | parent | next
elaborate
sanderjd | root | parent
I'm way less skeptical of Roberts than the parent commenter appears to be, but IMO he is more of a policy person than an engineering person. I still find the podcast very useful, with this lens in mind. There are other podcasts that get deeper into the engineering substance, and it's totally ok for different things to have different emphases.
triceratops | parent
> David Roberts does not have an EE degree

Elon Musk doesn't have an automotive or aeronautical engineering degree. People can understand work they don't have a degree in.

> misunderstands anything related to power system operations

Do you have some examples?