• Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Exactly, this is an engineering problem. You’re talking it like it’s an accounting one. Reliability, emergency use, redundancy, generating potential and universal scalability are the most important factors. Cost is a completely separate issue governed by separate factors, many of which are 100% artificial.

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      2 hours ago

      You’re stringing worlds together at this point.

      Cost is the single largest factor in the deployment of new power plants, and solar is just impossible to match right now.

      You could spend literally decades and billions building a nuclear plant, or start deploying solar right this minute and immediately reap the rewards of that investment.

      It’s a no-brainer.

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        2 hours ago

        But it doesn’t need to be one or the other. The more diverse the grid the better. I’ll also say again, cost on both sides is mostly artificial anyway.