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[james_davis_nicoll]

Misinformation about fusion may impede deployment of a technology unlikely to be delivered in a practical, commercial form during our lifetimes.

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[scott_sanford]

Renewable energy prices, particularly solar, are falling through the floor right now. That's nice. Energy storage isn't there yet, certainly not for the amounts of power it takes to run an electrical grid - but we can hope.

[neowolf2]

The relevant figure is not how much storage costs now, but how much storage would cost N years in the future, where N = number of years to build a nuclear power plant starting the planning now - number of years to do the same to a battery installation.

BTW, LFP batteries in China are just crashing in price recently (cell price).

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/01/ev-lfp-battery-price-war-w-55-in-six-months.html

Global battery production approached 1.1 TWh of capacity in 2023, most of that in China.