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Comment by idontwantthis

13 hours ago

Is 150GW enough for a “revolution”? That’s about 10% of current total power production.

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edbaskerville  8 hours ago

Solar and wind, with battery storage, can get you to say 90%, and then you only need 10% from other sources like geothermal and nuclear to fully decarbonize.

smallerize  12 hours ago

Solar is at 7%. It's very significant.

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