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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

when people say renewables are cheaper they're not counting the total lifecycle of things like... solar panels.

Yeah the LCOE of solar is likely ridiculously low because they still work decades after th started 25 year life used in levelised cost calculations

Nuclear in the west is so tremendously expensive we may as give up until China makes SMRs cheap

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean China is already making all the solar panels at this point, so we might as well wait for them to role out nuclear globally.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good news, the Chinese artificial sun has reached 403 seconds of stability. Up from 100 seconds 7 years ago. Once it reaches 1000 seconds at 50,000,000 Kelvin, it would mean it produces more energy than igniting the "sun" would cost.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I do think it's very likely that we'll see fusion working within our lifetimes. If China manages to get a fusion plant online then that really will solve all the energy problems for the foreseeable future.