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yonly65 t1_j5s75z6 wrote

The most uplifting news from my POV: power from renewables is now less expensive to produce than power from coal in some parts of the world. So much so that perfectly good coal-fired power plants are being decommissioned because they can't compete with modern renewables. And the technological genie which enables these renewables cannot be put back in the bottle.

As the saying goes, people didn't stop riding horses because they ran out of horses; they stopped because cars were superior. You're seeing the same thing happen with renewables now. It's wonderful.

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random_shitter t1_j5t7olv wrote

Slight but important correction: building and operating new renewables is in more and more places cheaper than operating an existing fossil fuel plant. Building new fossil fuel plants is not done any more from an economic perspective but for reliability reasons.

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