Message from @say

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2017-06-07 17:50:44 UTC  

oh

2017-06-07 17:50:51 UTC  

and chateu is not on reddit or /pol/

2017-06-07 17:51:43 UTC  

you guys are really smart

2017-06-07 17:51:51 UTC  

i wish they allowed this kinda debate in high schools

2017-06-07 17:52:07 UTC  

i feel like i learn more listening to yall argue than what i ever did when we had lecture

2017-06-07 17:52:45 UTC  

i just hope college isn't going to be this stressful thing where students and professors do everything in their power to not let education happen

2017-06-07 17:52:49 UTC  

thanks

2017-06-07 17:54:37 UTC  

no one has any interest for you to learn anything in school

2017-06-07 17:54:48 UTC  

you could create your own business in the end and become a competitor

2017-06-07 17:56:19 UTC  

@say It's irrelevant if anyone cares about it. The point is simply that Heartiste, an star in the constellation of internet philosophy that trickles through r/theredpill (also includes Roosh, Rollo Tomassi, etc) believes that he has the answer to an enormous and complex issue and can give it to me in 1500 words. He doesn't, but he doesn't KNOW he doesn't, because he, like most of these idiots, has a really unfortunate combination of arrogance and laziness

2017-06-07 17:56:38 UTC  

also, I care about it, because it's my field.

2017-06-07 17:57:11 UTC  

What specifically is he wrong about

2017-06-07 17:57:46 UTC  

his most fundamental flaw is his perception of how subsidies work and why they exist.

2017-06-07 17:58:52 UTC  

I won't get into the how they work part, because the difference between a grant and a tax credit is dry. But his perception of the necessity for subsidies is flawed. He ignores the fact that electricity production is not a free market.

2017-06-07 17:59:13 UTC  

Get into it

2017-06-07 17:59:17 UTC  

So his arguments about renewables ability to stand in a free market without subsidies are completely irrelevant

2017-06-07 18:00:17 UTC  

haha I will do my best in the 15 or so minutes I have here

2017-06-07 18:00:33 UTC  

Just overview

2017-06-07 18:01:08 UTC  

@UOC heartiste hasn't been on redpill for 3 years. you picked a bad example with the renewable energy bullshit, that's not his specialty.

2017-06-07 18:01:17 UTC  

Then why is he talking about it?

2017-06-07 18:01:20 UTC  

That's my point

2017-06-07 18:02:20 UTC  

Don't know. I don't care, you want info on renewable energy read ecology site or whatever. It's your fault for expecting top info about that from a blog that writes about pick up and trump.

2017-06-07 18:02:29 UTC  

Come on.

2017-06-07 18:02:34 UTC  

Right is right

2017-06-07 18:02:42 UTC  

Wrong is wrong

2017-06-07 18:03:30 UTC  

Its not personal

2017-06-07 18:03:44 UTC  

@fallot basically, most subsidies to renewables are offered through what are referred to as federal tax credits. a certain amount of the investment in qualified residential, commercial, or utility-scale solar systems. This was established in the energy policy act of 2005. It's a subsidy because it's tax money on investments the feds OTHERWISE would have taken from investors. It's not money that comes out of a general tax pool and goes TO renewable generators.

2017-06-07 18:04:37 UTC  

which is what Heartiste is implying.

2017-06-07 18:05:25 UTC  

so renewable energy providers get tax breaks

2017-06-07 18:05:28 UTC  

that's the subsidy

2017-06-07 18:05:30 UTC  

is this what you are saying

2017-06-07 18:05:34 UTC  

yes

2017-06-07 18:05:44 UTC  

should they get tax breaks?

2017-06-07 18:05:56 UTC  

I'm getting there.

2017-06-07 18:05:58 UTC  

okay

2017-06-07 18:06:20 UTC  

I bet he smells horrible

2017-06-07 18:06:28 UTC  

who, heartiste?

2017-06-07 18:06:53 UTC  

The 2005 EPAct I mentioned is an expansion of a 1978 statute called PURPA, which was implemented following the oil crises of the late 70s

2017-06-07 18:06:56 UTC  

for national security reasons