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Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear (ember-energy.org)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Some key insights from the article:

Basically, what they did was to look at how much batteries would be needed in a given area to provide constant power supply at least 97% of the time, and the calculate the costs of that solar+battery setup compared to coal and nuclear.

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

they looked at 20 years which is close to the life cycle for solar/batteries and not even half the life of nuclear

Brother, with some luck a nuclear plant is in construction stage after those 20 years

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    China has been doing them in around 7 years from groundbreaking to grid connection and is trying to get that down to 5 years with their bailong power plant as they are developing an experienced work force and actually have experience making the parts

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