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by grecy 719 days ago
You already said that, and you're ignoring the fact that many countries are switching from coal and nuclear to renewables, thanks in part to the rapidly falling prices.
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just today, the UK had its last coal delivery to a power plant. after that, it's closing and the UK will no longer be using coal at all.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckkg0wl7dkro

This is irrelevant to what we were discussing originally. Neither the UK nor any other country does have battery storage of the size of major power plants. Those are required to provide stable energy. Otherwise the power would go out during calm or in the night.
As I've shown, many countries are making the change.

It will take some time, you can't build this level of infrastructure overnight.

Here's another from today: https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/contact-energy-picks-tesla-...

You haven't shown that "many countries" are building large-scale battery grid storage.
Last quarter Tesla deployed 4GWh of battery capacity, this quarter it is 9.4GWh.

Where do you think that is being deployed?

Yeah, where is it deployed? To balance out the volatility of solar and wind energy?