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Re:Tesla details how it’ll charge new owners to use Supercha... by zaroth on Thursday January 12, 2017 @10:23PM (#13388172)
No, see LCOE. (which can be calculated with or without accounting for externalities)

Not surprisingly all current technology is relatively competitive with the others. If it wasn't the case, we would have a clear winner and there would be nothing interesting to discuss!

https://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/08/f25/LCOE.pdf

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Re:Tesla details how it’ll charge new owners to use Supercha... by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday January 13, 2017 @01:30AM (#13388877)
What does this mean for the folk who loudly proclaim "[solar/wind] now cheaper than coal"?
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Re:Tesla details how it’ll charge new owners to use Supercha... by nradov on Friday January 13, 2017 @09:43AM (#13391104)
Solar and wind power can be cheaper than coal (by spot price) in certain limited areas at certain times of the day. The problem is that solar and wind are incapable of providing reliable base load capacity. Once you add energy storage (batteries, molten salt, pumped hydroelectric, etc) to provide power when it's dark with no wind blowing the costs go way up.
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