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by chelical 2605 days ago
To be fair, nuclear power plants can also take a decade or more to build.
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> To be fair, nuclear power plants can also take a decade or more to build.

That's kind of the point. Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

And even if batteries become cost effective in a decade or more, that's when people start installing them at scale. It's not as if you could replace the entire grid with them overnight either.

Fair point. I hadn't considered the time to install all the batteries on a massive scale on top of the time to reduce the production cost.