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Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear (ember-energy.org)

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Some key insights from the article:

Basically, what they did was to look at how much batteries would be needed in a given area to provide constant power supply at least 97% of the time, and the calculate the costs of that solar+battery setup compared to coal and nuclear.

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[-] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago

This is still more polluting to mine than going nuclear, even accounting for nuclear waste.

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