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40% of US electricity is now emissions-free (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Eximius@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And yet, after many decades of solar, wind construction. It is the energy source in that pie chart that is sizeable (just as much as all wind and solar) and extremely stable (probably for the last 50 years), without any major construction in the past 30 years minimum.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 11 months ago

Wind/solar only ramped up in the last 10 years, not decades. That's when they got cheap. Really cheap. It's nuclear that had a huge head start.

[–] IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

To be fair, Plant Vogtle just turned on Unit 3 earlier this year and Unit 4 should be coming soon.