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Nope it's not.
How you planning on addressing the energy storage problem for renewables once fossil fuels are in low enough use that they can't cover the gap, and the resulting, large hike in renewable prices once that storage is needed? Because current assessments don't include those costs right now, since fossil fuels and nuclear currently cover it