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Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They’re Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust: "Solar is now the engine of the power transition." (futurism.com)
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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Nuclear, both fission and fusion (which will never happen anyway) are relics of an era of cheap fossil fuels and relative world order.

Solar electricity is viable at scale but also indicates a change in our species' living arrangements on this planet.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 50 minutes ago

We are started to build the first commercial fusion plants now. You may want to update your rhetoric.