Baseload and nighttime cannot be ignored if you try to argue economics. You have to compensate with batteries or overbuild or a continent spanning grid - and su

Baseload and nighttime cannot be ignored if you try to argue economics. You have to compensate with batteries or overbuild or a continent spanning grid - and suddenly “cheap” is not quite the word. And of course solar is “cheap” in SoCal or Morocco. North of latitude 50, in France or the UK or Canada or northern China it is more expensive than mass-produced nuclear power plants even without accounting for batteries and nighttime.