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> I want a future of abundant and cheap energy. Why don't you think we can get there? Currently, there is no path to generating abundant and cheap energy witho
by simiones 5y ago
> I want a future of abundant and cheap energy. Why don't you think we can get there?
Currently, there is no path to generating abundant and cheap energy without fossil fuels, and fossil fuels only seem cheap because they're not pricing in global warming.
All other forms of generating power are more expensive overall, or much more limited by other issues. Solar is very cheap, but having enough solar + storage to power a northerly country for a bad winter is decidedly not. Not to mention, the cheap storage solutions (batteries) don't actually scale up if you want to move entirely to solar + wind (there simply isn't enough lithium in the world, or at least not enough mined per year to achieve 100% solar + wind in a few decades).