solar developer last year, and he wassked how long it took to permit his 50 megawatt solar project, and he stunned the audience because he said one day. it took one day to get the land permit, the air permit, the construction permit and basically the financing as well, and when you think about the two years, three years, sometimes up to five years it takes in the u.s. to be able to get all of the entities involved to just approve putting the shovel in the ground to start construction, you realize we re at a significant cost disadvantage because that time frame that it takes in the u.s. costs money. it s high-risk development money. it s consultants and a lot of people spending a lot of time writing and doing all the kind of reports and working with all the different governmental entities that are involved in each of those decisions and getting those governmental entities to work together to be able to ultimately come out with the same decision to move the project forward, and
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