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by sleepysysadmin 1690 days ago
>The question is: should we be closing nuclear plants and filling the gap with natural gas and coal before we get there?

We're there now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...

Put solar panels on literally every building. Put wind mills where you will. We know we need to do this. No nat gas or coal, we do pump storage. When we can, we do the next gen batteries at massive grid scale.

We dont need to shutdown anything early. Those are all amortized for their time. When we can, we eliminate those things as they come of age.