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Re:Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the fir... by rasz on Monday April 21, 2025 @07:03PM (#43757458)
>solar photovoltaic (PV) generation was 56% less expensive than the weighted average fossil fuel-fired alternatives

Only if you need electricity during the day.

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Re:Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the fir... by nielsbot on Monday April 21, 2025 @07:18PM (#43757559)
I thought solar + battery was cheaper the nat gas now.

https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/lcoe-and-valu...

(If not it soon will be.)

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Re:Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the fir... by nielsbot on Monday April 21, 2025 @11:08PM (#43758743)
*than
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Re:Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the fir... by frontlodjkgi on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @06:54AM (#43760760)
Depends where you live. If you live here, sun wouldn't be up for a few months at a time, so the battery would have to be pretty big. And it can easily drop below -30C for long periods
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Re:Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the fir... by dalyons on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @09:25AM (#43761839)
A very small % of the global population lives in those conditions. We can thus safely ignore it as an edge case for now, and still solve for the vast majority of emissions reduction
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