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.

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    2 days ago

    shhh!

    how can we develop a whole new market to make the rich richer if you keep bringing those kinds of facts in here?

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        2 days 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.

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          20 hours 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.