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>You can make a photovoltaic panels fab with the money that goes into a nuclear power plant, and complete it faster. We already have dirt cheap PV thanks to Ch
by aphextron 8y ago
>You can make a photovoltaic panels fab with the money that goes into a nuclear power plant, and complete it faster.
We already have dirt cheap PV thanks to China. Panels are not the problem. Storage and transmission is. Until ultra-cheap grid-scale batteries are a reality, solar will only ever be viable in certain areas at certain times.
- vosper 8y agoCoupling solar with hydro to recycle some water and allow the dam to operate at a greater capacity even when river or storage levels are low is an interesting idea [0]. Though perhaps only applicable in a few locations (I think the Waitaki power scheme in NZ could be a candidate, one day) [0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/24/business/energy-environment/hoover-dam-renewable-energy.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/24/business/ener...