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Re:The $1.5B Mammoth Solar Farm Will Be the Largest in the US by chii on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @09:00PM (#29261245)
The opinion of elon musk is intimately tied with his ownership of battery production business (that is tesla - it's more a battery company now than ever before!).

i don't see the price of batteries decreasing to such an extend that it's cheaper to solar capture and store with batteries (of the lithium-ion kind at least), than to produce electricity with nuclear.

And i would say we need a mix of everything, since they all make different trade offs.

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Re:The $1.5B Mammoth Solar Farm Will Be the Largest in the US by okareaman on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @09:28PM (#29261399)
His comment was about fusion. He said he believes we could eventually make it work, but spending the money wasn't necessary. His battery business is mostly for cars, which is unrelated to the source of the electricity.
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Re:The $1.5B Mammoth Solar Farm Will Be the Largest in the US by bradknowles on Thursday November 18, 2021 @12:25AM (#29262228)
His large scale battery plants suck up a huge number of batteries internally. It’s not all about the cars, it’s about the ecosystem around the cars.
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Re:The $1.5B Mammoth Solar Farm Will Be the Largest in the US by N1H1L on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @11:11PM (#29261903)
It is cheaper today already. Battery backed solar already has a LCOE than nuclear.
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