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Not everybody seems to think so when I see the number of downvotes on this post.
Sadly, any criticism on renewables, even constructive, is often straight downvoted without any comments nor justifications on Hackernews.
Voting on every site is an emotional response, and bad news + convincing arguments against currently held beliefs produces a strong negative one.
I appreciate that you gave more insight into electricity markets today.
Yeah, and you can even consider yourself lucky if it's just downvotes, sometimes your messages just get flagged, like when I called renewables being a major reason for the Iberian blackout with citations from the official report.
TBH your first phrase is how every bad comment starts so I can understand reflex downvotes, BUT, your actual content after that is fantastic, and it took me a while to mentally go to "oh wait they make sense here"