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Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern... by ascorbic on Thursday August 27, 2020 @02:34PM (#24296972)
They don't need a whole nuclear power station built around them though.
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Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern... by bob29 on Thursday August 27, 2020 @02:37PM (#24297008)
They also have orders of magnitude (10^3 - 10^4) more charge/discharge cycles than uranium.
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Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern... by saagarjha on Thursday August 27, 2020 @02:41PM (#24297065)
This is a joke, right?
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Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern... by bob29 on Thursday August 27, 2020 @03:06PM (#24297371)
Its an observation that comparing vastly different technologies using just a single metric produces mostly misleading asinine statements that aren't sufficient to influence any meaningful policy or engineering decisions without additional supporting explanation and justification.
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Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern... by saagarjha on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:49PM (#24298490)
Right, so it is a joke :)
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