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Re:Arctic Ocean started getting warmer decades earlier than ... by rglover on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @07:42PM (#29399311)
> Wind and solar are cheaper than coal and in many circumstances cheaper than natural gas.

Now do the reliability part.

Edit: Worth reading this [1] and this [2].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01020-z

[2] https://archive.md/4D5R6

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Re:Arctic Ocean started getting warmer decades earlier than ... by breakyerself on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @10:17PM (#29400268)
Theres a nearly limitless number of ways to store energy. Plenty of them don't require cobalt. The cheaper renewables get the less efficient storage technologies need to be to be cost effective.

Anywhere pricing of electricity fluctuates with the intermittence of renewables there is opportunity to use storage to profit. The faster we drive the adoption of renewables in the 1st world the faster prices on storage tech will drop which will benefit the developing world. Especially the parts which will never have transmission lines built out from some centralized power plant 300 kilometers away.

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