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Re:Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-n... by realusername on Sunday August 26, 2018 @11:26PM (#17849263)
Cost of products are averaged for their lifespan, if the solar panels only last 10 years, they need to be 4 times cheaper than nuclear to be at the same price per year.

And nuclear does not improve in a "slow paced", I don't know where you got that impression, there's been a lot of innovations on the last 10 years.

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Re:Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-n... by pfdietz on Monday August 27, 2018 @05:34PM (#17854766)
Nuclear technology has improved in cost in the past decade by a factor of 6, like PV has? If not, I will call its rate of improvement "slow".
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Re:Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-n... by realusername on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @08:00AM (#17867529)
that's not how percentages are working... There's clearly some math issues here... And the latest generation of plants are already 20% better than the previous ones.
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