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by manfredo 2370 days ago
Solar and wind beat out nuclear for generation without regard to intermittent production. If you counting the cost of actually replacing fossil fuels, that has to take into storage and retrieval costs which drastically increase cost well beyond nuclear. Well, to be more pedantic nobody really knows the cost because the technology to store energy effectively and at the required scale in a manner that is not geographically dependent does not yet exist.