Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheaper than coal

Re:Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheap... by woodandsteel on Monday January 29, 2018 @03:08PM (#16260241)

>Nuclear and coal are available now and are known to work.

Nuclear is not available now in the sense that you can order a plant and have it running in a year or two like you can with solar. More like a decade

Coal is available, but more expensive than natural gas. Coal is dead, did you really not know that?

>Utility-scale battery farms of the magnitude necessary are not.

But rapid progress is being made, and the utilities are planning for the future, which is only rational.

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Re:Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheap... by imtringued on Monday January 29, 2018 @07:16PM (#16261832)

>Nuclear is not available now in the sense that you can order a plant and have it running in a year or two like you can with solar. More like a decade

The interesting aspect is that by the time a nuclear power plant is online renewable energy and battery storage might have advanced enough to make it uneconomical.

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