Some key insights from the article:

Basically, what they did was to look at how much batteries would be needed in a given area to provide constant power supply at least 97% of the time, and the calculate the costs of that solar+battery setup compared to coal and nuclear.

  • Frezik
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    33 months ago

    What’s the power source that doesn’t do that? How do I advocate for it?

    • @majster@lemmy.zip
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      23 months ago

      Firewood from your own forest is the only one and it’s carbon neutral too. This is meant more as a joke but still.

      • @GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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        13 months ago

        You aren’t wrong, either, but if you start doing the numbers for how much forest per person we need, there isn’t enough land. It is carbon neutral, though.