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Re:The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change by fweespeech on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @11:13AM (#9765151)
But it never has to be cheaper than hydro-electric. ;)

It just has to be cheaper than pure coal/natural gas/etc. plants.

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Re:The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change by yxhuvud on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @11:32AM (#9765315)
Well, it is never going to be cheaper than existing hydro-electric.

It could well be cheaper than installing new capacity.

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Re:The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change by matdrewin on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @11:23AM (#9765223)
Well I'm not sure about never. I'm sure it's going to happen someday, it's just going to take longer.

As for your 2nd comment, I thought I had covered that with: "But yeah, anywhere else it makes sense."

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