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Re:Germany to Rethink Nuclear Shutdown as Energy Crisis Deepens by MagnumOpus on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @03:57AM (#32162788)
It costs less... in California or adjacent states with both massive insolation and good infrastructure. It doesn't cost less in Germany or Poland which is north of the 50th latitude and has about a third of the insolation per year.

And storage has some very hard physical limits on scaling up that will prevent costs from falling a lot - mostly the actual amount of the elements on earth that are needed for the batteries.

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Re:Germany to Rethink Nuclear Shutdown as Energy Crisis Deepens by ncmncm on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @03:17PM (#32170793)
In fact storage has no physical limits on scaling up. Costs are low and falling faster than solar and wind ever did, and there is no reason to doubt it will continue. The overwhelming majority of storage is not batteries, and will not be batteries.

If you have to lie to make your case, what does that tell your readers?

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