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Sorry, how does ripgrep save you tens of hours? I get that it is faster than regular grep, but that doesn't really answer the question; I don't find myself stalled waiting for grep. The only reasonable explanation would be something ripgrep does that grep actually doesn't. I could try to guess, but have no confidence I would guess right.

Right: the fossil fuel lobby has discovered that nuke-mongering is in their interest. The nukes don't need to ever be completed, but as long as they haven't been, their market is secure.

They know the writing is on the wall, but profits can be good right up to the end.

If global civilization collapses, the majority will starve. Some won't.

Solar. Wind.

The argument against nukes is that they are super-expensive compared to modern alternatives. The politicians who make nukes even more expensive are smart enough to get rich doing it.

You imagine there is no plan because you do not know about the plans.

It would be stupid to build storage there is not renewable generating capacity to charge. When there is such capacity, they will then build out storage. In the meantime the correct place to spend is on generation. Which, in fact, is what they are doing.

Who do you imagine you will fool?

It has already been explained to you numerous times that the above is false. Who do you imagine you will fool this time?

Do you even read what you write? You make no sense.

Wind and solar both. Which of those is cheaper varies with circumstance.

Hydrolysis has had high losses until recently, but efficiency is now well over 90%.

The remaining problem is building factories for electrolysis equipment. Building factories takes an appallingly long time. But the problem is only of time, not technical maturity.

False. There is no shortage of any of the materials needed to go fully renewable.

I have no interest in, or expectation of, convincing trolls of anything.

It suffices that readers know they are being trolled.

Loan guarantees are actual money.

Or, how would you like to provide me loan guarantees? They won't cost you anything. Right?

You knew better, but pretended not to.

Nobody believes any such thing. Stop putting words in others' mouths.

You may troll, and, troll, and troll again.

But all know you are lying, this time same as last.

OP could explain why they imagine fatal problems. Would, if they were not just trolling.

There is absolutely no need to get renewable power from "across the Mediterranean".

Which you already knew, but evidently hoped readers would not.

Fusion is not, in fact, technically feasible.

Anything not built yet has not been built. After it is built, it will then have been built.

Deserts are a stupid place to plant solar farms, so the question is moot.

Numerous politically stable European countries have plenty of room for solar installations.

It has been explained to you numerous times already.

You may repeat your lies as much as you like. I will point out that you are lying, each time.

Who do you imagine you are fooling?

Pumped storage is not, in fact, geographically limited. There are very few places without any hills nearby. There is absolutely no shortage of hills.

Which you knew, if only because it has been pointed out to you numerous times.

But you prefer to repeat your lies, hoping no one will call attention to them.

There are dozens of such reservoirs in the Sierra Nevada range in California. None of them will take as much water as Lake Mead, but they don't need to.

You are missing that trolls just make shit up.

I can buy solar panels at less than half the price of two years ago.

I daresay you have paid quite a lot less for a GB of SD card storage each year.

Trolling is unwelcome here.

The overwhelming majority of utility storage is not, and will not be, in batteries. So, your wishful thinking about battery sourcing is wholly irrelevant.

I frequently get flyers in the mail, from a variety of mostly co-op providers, offering to supply me power more cheaply than the grid operator does.

So in fact my cost, as a consumer, is lower than it was.

You clearly wish this were not so.

You dearly wish for storage to be expensive, just as you used to wish solar PV would be. But you were wrong then, and you are wrong now.

Everything else is getting cheaper, at an exponential rate, but nukes are getting more costly.