BobFuck wrote:
A subsidy almost always has this effect, since if it is necessary to subsidize, it is because it does not work ...
a) it is not that it does not work; it is still, for the moment, more expensive than producing from nuclear!
So if at a given moment, we want to "boost" the market, therefore the demand for panels, therefore the research and the investments which will lead to a fall in the price of the material and, we hope, one day to a convergence of production costs ...
[I'm not saying that everything was done well; I say that doing nothing will not lead - except in a Chinese-style economy - to making an alternative take off! The sudden exit from the bubble, following a badly controlled tariff, is the very example of "imperfections" due to bad decisions / bad calculations, etc ... But, for me, it does not invalidate the system; nor does a tire which burst because incorrectly inflated invalidate the quality of the principle of the tire in relation to the wheel rimmed on carts!]
b) so we do nothing ????
[and I hear from here all say: "the government is doing nothing to get out of nuclear power"! I am of course talking about those who are sensitive to this issue - I think the majority are for! - On the contrary of that, I find that the system that I describe above - tax toute consumption, therefore nuclear electricity - to subsidize decreasing way renewable production - is no fool! Except to leave it to EdF and also Suez and a few others now! And we know what they are going to do ... Good, but I am not going to open an umpteenth debate "does liberalism naturally lead to the top of the good for society" or not ???]