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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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[–] Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

headline is clickbait. here's the only thing it relies on:

According to new reporting by the BBC, photovoltaics will account for 10 percent of the world’s power generation by the end of 2026, a threshold which will see solar energy officially surpass nuclear fission.

Compared to nuclear energy generation — which has stayed largely flat over the past 26 years globally — the publication notes the volume of solar energy being generated has exploded, increasing some 2,700 times over across the same period.

so it's saying that nuclear usage share is so low that solar will very soon generate more power than it, not that solar panels are now more efficient than nuclear

[–] gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

they're more economically efficient than nuclear, which means they give you more bang for the buck