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Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They’re Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust: "Solar is now the engine of the power transition."

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Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They’re Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust: "Solar is now the engine of the power transition."

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They're Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust

Solar energy will soon account for 10 percent of the world's energy generation, as nuclear power gets precipitously more expensive to build.

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Like on the north pole maybe, but otherwise it’s just a massive loss of economy of scale.
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  Uhh any major metropolitan area without US large area infrastructure? Also, underwater.
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    Cheaper to drag a cable there.

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