@jwildeboer @cstross Something approaching 75% reduction in cost per watt in ten years. Not quite comparable to microprocessors but huge by most industrial standards.

What also astounds me is how global it is - the numbers from places like Pakistan are just mind boggling

@Crofton @jwildeboer It's also increasingly in their interest to play hardball. If they drop the price to $40 the US and Canadian producers go under. They'll not be able to get funding because it's also obvious that the Saudis can do this whenever they want and that oil is on a rather short runway at this point.
As a side benefit they get to screw their rivals in Iran and the Houthis.

@jwildeboer I am hoping that if Trumpy goes oil gas oil gas, he'll piss off the Saudi's who will then decide to bury the US fracking and gas industry by flooding the market a bit. Would probably take out the Russians and a few others too at $40 a barrel.

@jwildeboer There's hints where the rest is going too. Musk is in with the Trump team and busy with this
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/5965923

Join the dots

@jwildeboer Wonder if IrDA would be better for some use cases. It's really hard to spot a pop up IrDA network but it can do 4Mbit short range. Spook resistant data drops.