This is how you crush fossil fuels: “the combination of solar-photovoltaic generation and battery storage will be cheaper than the cost of coal-fired power in China, and new gas-fired plants in America” www.economist.com/the-world-ah... - ThreadSky

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greatlakespecktwo.bsky.social • 61 days ago

This is how you crush fossil fuels: “the combination of solar-photovoltaic generation and battery storage will be cheaper than the cost of coal-fired power in China, and new gas-fired plants in America”
https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2024/11/20/grid-scale-storage-is-the-fastest-growing-energy-technology

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I don’t think it’s enough that renewables are cheaper. We have to actively work to shit down fossil fuels.

*shut

We also have to manage things within the constraints of reality and mathematics

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/09/got-storage-how-hard-can-it-be/

I wanted to point out that the Chinese Government has turned on their Liquid Fluoride Thorium Molten Salt Reactor recently and this burns a waste product from rare earth extraction called Thorium which is a massive waste problem for industry currently

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Chinese-molten-salt-reactor-cleared-for-start-up

You find the amount of nuclear and industrial waste produced by renewables acceptable?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth

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