Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK government

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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