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Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies by tonyedgecombe on Sunday September 22, 2019 @05:26AM (#21040445)
That’s a small pilot plant, I did ask at any scale.

I know I’m being sceptical but CCS has been talked about in the UK for a long time and we haven’t been able to move forward on it for some reason. I now worry that it is mostly a distraction from other technologies and changes that we know will work.

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Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies by philwelch on Saturday September 28, 2019 @06:23AM (#21099544)
Generating all of our baseload power with renewables isn’t exactly a more plausible short-term solution. The energy storage problem is outright enormous. We don’t know that any of it will work because we haven’t done any of it at scale, that’s why we still have the problem.

What has been proven to work at scale is nuclear.

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