[coldtea]

>Why would you invest in nuclear power, which is several times more expensive per kwh

Because the related lobby pays well and a huge power station project (which runs well into the tens of billions) has much larger space for bribes

[crimsoneer]

Alternatively, because nuclear power still works at night.

[coldtea]

If only we had some way to store energy

[mrmlz]

At scale.

[tfourb]

You mean like 27 Gwh of yearly installed capacity kind of scale? https://www.solarpowereurope.org/press-releases/new-report-e...

[Jensson]

Nice, that gets us enough battery to survive winters in 10 000 years.

[defrost]

Now linearly extropolate oil supply numbers from just prior to Ford's Model-T.

How many thousands of years pass before we can meet current 2096 oil demand?