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    Mr. Coffee replied to the thread The transition.
    The 8kw of solar panels on my roof cost me $16k in 2016. They were heavily discounted and listed for about $33k online (the story was...
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    Mr. Coffee reacted to RunForTheHills's post in the thread The transition with Wow Wow.
    They have also cornered the market on DRAM and SSD storage. 64Gb of DDR5 DRAM costs over $1000 right now.
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    Mr. Coffee reacted to scrambler's post in the thread The transition with Like Like.
    I can't help but wondering what part of nonrenewable versus renewable some people do not seem to get. Oil resources are limited and non...
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    Mr. Coffee replied to the thread The transition.
    They are going down on an exponential curve, not linearly. The graph makes it look approximately linear but because the axis is...
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    Mr. Coffee replied to the thread The transition.
    All of which make for such a wonderful view. I don't see any of those as being more intrinsically scenic than solar panels.
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    Mr. Coffee replied to the thread The transition.
    Of course the facility itself is so esthetically pleasing, though...
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    Mr. Coffee replied to the thread The transition.
    And I know that solar is so unpleasant to look at and ugly. I guess some people think this is pretty:
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    Mr. Coffee replied to the thread The transition.
    I agree. You are comparing a product that does not yet exist with a product that works and you can purchase today. This graph hammers...
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    Mr. Coffee reacted to mschwett's post in the thread The transition with Like Like.
    of course a structure needs to be designed for the site. go to switzerland, which is certainly a snowy, alpine place, where new roofs...
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    Mr. Coffee reacted to mschwett's post in the thread The transition with Like Like.
    such nonsense. it has literally been working on the ground in hundreds of places over the planet for decades now, and has accelerated...
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    Mr. Coffee replied to the thread The transition.
    Oh, so solar parking lots are "pie in the sky" and SMRs are somehow not? I can buy this on alibaba, I can't buy an SMR online anywhere...
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    Mr. Coffee replied to the thread The transition.
    What you miss when you say "Solar needs 100 times more land than SMRs" is that you can do other stuff with the land you use for solar...
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    Mr. Coffee replied to the thread The transition.
    Right now the best estimate for the electricity costs from an SMR are around $120/MWh. Right now you can buy and build solar plus...
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    Mr. Coffee reacted to Art Deco's post in the thread The transition with Like Like.
    And boots on the ground were supposed be obsolete after Vietnam IIRC ...
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    Mr. Coffee replied to the thread The transition.
    "Only by 5%" is still a drop and makes it harder to justify spending $10 billion to build something that will take decades to pay back...
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