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In many regions solar capacity factor is much higher than 20%; for example, the entire US. https://atb.nrel.gov/electricity/2021/utility-scale_pv

I'm kind of a fan of government doing the right thing regardless of the (high) chance of someone else coming in and shitting all over it.

Of course most don't actually even believe it, that's just the pitch to get that VC juice. It's basically fraud all the way down.

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

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

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

Isn't this the definition of contempt of court?

Kellogg's Cereal is not buying Raytheon Aerospace.

-equivalent headline

Because it doesn't go to the military. It goes to the MIC.

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.