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>Nuclear and coal are available now and are known to work. Nuclear is not available now in the sense that you can order a plant and have it running in a year o
by woodandsteel 9y ago
>Nuclear and coal are available now and are known to work.
Nuclear is not available now in the sense that you can order a plant and have it running in a year or two like you can with solar. More like a decade
Coal is available, but more expensive than natural gas. Coal is dead, did you really not know that?
>Utility-scale battery farms of the magnitude necessary are not.
But rapid progress is being made, and the utilities are planning for the future, which is only rational.
- imtringued 9y ago>Nuclear is not available now in the sense that you can order a plant and have it running in a year or two like you can with solar. More like a decade The interesting aspect is that by the time a nuclear power plant is online renewable energy and battery storage might have advanced enough to make it uneconomical.