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by bottlepalm 1106 days ago
Yesterday in California nuclear produced 54 GWh of energy - that's pretty good except solar/wind produced 237 and batteries 11. And the growth of both is only accelerating.

https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html#sectio...

So you're kind of right that nuclear isn't close to renewables..

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Little ol Iowa has 12GW wind capacity! Around here thats > half our needs.