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Comment on U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after

Bad phrasing. There are power walls for home use and FPL is still available.

My point is that Florida could use solar as 1 prong on the challenge to provide clean, green energy but FPL must deliver profit to it’s shareholders and will fight that effort

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FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
As soon as solar panels and batteries are involved it’s not “clean, green energy” though. I have no idea how people are that lie.

Solar panels don’t grow on trees. They’re not made from renewable sources. They require mass amounts of mining and coal/gas created energy to make, and they last 10-20 years max. They’re not recyclable either because it costs more to recycle them than it does to make a new one.

Batteries are even worse.

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- Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Widely distributed solar + nuclear produces a generation curve that matches demand better than any other combination, minimizing battery or dirty on-demand generation needs.
  
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  - FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    💯
    
    Nuclear + solar is the only way to truly make it work. Unfortunately the “nuclear bad” message that’s spread by the “renewables” people are going to put us trillions of dollars and decades behind in getting there.
    
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    SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    There are many orders in NA for SMR reactors. A fraction of China, but they are happening.
    
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- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  They require mass amounts of mining and coal/gas created energy to make
  
  only because we choose to use coal and gas. This circular argument is old.
  
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  - FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    No, because we have no alternative. Mining equipment and machines can’t run on wind and solar.
    
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- Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Still less than the competitors
  
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