Berlin-based climate research institute Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) has released a new study indicating that, in the last decade, the cost of solar power has dropped by 87 percent, and the cost of battery storage by 85 percent.

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  • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    And, well, sometimes it just simply is night, and sometimes the wind doesn’t blow.

    Do you really think this isn’t already taken into account?

    We don’t have the battery tech to run from storage alone

    Nobody is making that argument, as far as I’m aware. There are plenty of ways of storing energy, e.g. pumped hydro, that would work in conjunction with battery storage.

    But, honestly why wouldn’t we use nuclear?

    The obvious one. It’s wildly expensive when compared to renewables, and that’s before the usual nuclear build issues of cost and schedule overruns.