Solar panels are incredibly thin and light. There is no reason not to include them.

Ahh Reggie, I hear yer quite the man aboot toon

Nobody gives a flying fuck about campaign finance laws with this supreme court.

Whole milk also often called “Vitamin D Milk”

How can you guys get any work done around the house if you’re constantly swapping shoes?

LLMs: using statistics to generate reasonable-sounding wrong answers from bad data.

Dude literally bought Kleenex and insists you call it facial tissue paper.

Solar panels don’t use any “rare metals.” Solar carport projects simply cost 3-4x more on a per watt basis than large “green field” ground mount projects. This is due to the increased structural, permitting, and install costs. Carports also cannot track the sun, which reduces their output by about 20%.

People have a hard-on about nuclear being “baseload” power and renewables being intermittent. Solar/wind plus batteries to add dispatchability is a valid comparison to nuclear if you only want to talk about baseload.

This is due to corporate greed. Solar and wind are the cheapest sources of energy in the history of the world.

Even current lithium-based battery storage is already cheaper than nuclear.

Hydro is often turned on and off as pumped storage. Nuclear never is

Out of those you listed, nuclear is the least flexible in terms of output regulation. PV with batteries is the most flexible.

Yeah the poster above you is wrong. Solar is WAY less than half the price.

Solar plus batteries are already cheaper than nuclear, and only going down. Nuclear has always gotten more expensive over time. For the cost of the most recently completed nuclear plant in the US they could have built 12 times the nameplate capacity worth of solar with 24 hours of battery backup. (A totally unnecessary amount of dispatchability.)

Solar and batteries easily “pay” for their manufacturing carbon emissions within 1-2 years max (as does nuclear). This payback period only goes down as the grid gets greener.

I want everything to be toggle switches. If I could get a keyboard made of 105 classic toggle switches it would be worth the effort to type with it.

It smells and feels awful, though.

Then look at the data. Vogtle was just completed for over $30/watt. You could build solar with 16x the nameplate capacity and 24 hours of lithium battery storage to make it baseload for that same amount.

The IEA is a bad joke that has been notoriously wrong in its projections for decades. Nobody in the industry takes them seriously.

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You can build entirely new solar supply chains from mining through manufacturing faster than a single new nuclear plant.