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Is it 2015?

You can buy 10x as much solar+battery as nuclear these days. Nuclear is simply too complex and dangerous to compete.



Yeah when it comes to these discussions, I think most people are unaware just how much the cost of solar & BESS (at the large scale) has fallen in the past couple years.


The battery installed along solar farms is usually on the order of hours of energy delivery though. Like 5 hours. It’s fine, but not everyone will be able to ornaffors to buy electricity on when it is cloudy and still for a few days.


Battery capacity for how long?

You are talking about a statistical value not a deterministic one.

So it is solar+battery which is sufficient for n% of typical years.




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