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Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system

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353 points dmazin | 2 comments | 09 Jul 25 12:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.008s | source
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rel_ic ◴[10 Jul 25 13:39 UTC] No.44520938[source]▶
Renewable energy is great, but we're not replacing fossil fuels with it, we're just adding more energy usage. And our energy usage is destroying the environment.

Don't let these advancements in solar make you think things are getting better. We need to reduce fossil fuel usage, not just increase solar usage.

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amarait ◴[10 Jul 25 13:44 UTC] No.44521010[source]▶
What replaces fossil fuels is some kind of breakthrough in batteries. At the moment its getting better every year were currently at less than $100 per KWh which is crazy but needs to be improved for allowing more off the grid energy consumption
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1. goda90 ◴[10 Jul 25 14:34 UTC] No.44521565[source]▶
Better batteries are the road to replacing fossil fuels for transportation, but I feel like abundant nuclear energy is what we need to give a jump start to green steel, hydrogen, ammonia, etc, and electrifying bulk heating industrial processes.
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2. dalyons ◴[10 Jul 25 19:33 UTC] No.44524684[source]▶
you may feel that, but its not going to happen. nukes are too expensive, and thus the energy they produce is too expensive.