It's just a bit of shitshow of weird communication. How hard would a tweet like "A problem with solar panels is that they produce too much electricity during the middle of the day, putting strain on the grid and requiring increased power consumption".

That's not as sensationalist but I'm also not a headline writer. It just seems like this shitty piece of journalistic malpractice was made to stir up outrage

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/14/1028461/solar-value-deflation-california-climate-change/

It's MIT, they're not exactly a clickbait source.

The reply is what makes the excerpt seem inflammatory. It's an article about the economics of solar power, so the excerpt is a fair representation of both the article and the real issue it's discussing.

It would be sensationalist if they said "critical problem paying for solar power comes from negative prices, threatening future of solar adoption"

Framing it as though it were a condemnation of solar turns a statement of fact into something different than what it is.

[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

All this time I thought that MIT meant Massive Idiot Team