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Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They’re Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust: "Solar is now the engine of the power transition."

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Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They’re Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust: "Solar is now the engine of the power transition."

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days ago

Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They're Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust

Solar energy will soon account for 10 percent of the world's energy generation, as nuclear power gets precipitously more expensive to build.

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except for geothermal which comes from the Earth’s rotational momentum

emm that is not the source of geothermal energy…
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  TIL - according to one source 80% of the geothermal energy comes from radiation and the remaining 20% is from the sun.

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