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Japan unveils first solar super-panel

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Re: Japan unveils first solar super-panel

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Both wind and solar have deployed faster than nuclear ever did globally. And that's in Wh terms, you specify capacity but I guess you'd be annoyed if I replied that renewables beat that capacity easily, like China deploying 80GW of wind just last year. Here's an article looking at per capita increases show that France and Sweden did really well but renewables are accelerating past their records: https://www.sustainab…

except nuclear was prevented from growing by governments so let's not talk about how one grows faster than another

It's all part of the problem that has to be solved. You can't pretend that nuclear is better technically and that is the end of the story. As long as governments regulate and as long as people motivate governments to slow-roll more nuclear, nuclear generation will have a serious competitive disadvantage.

That disadvantage will manifest as cost and slow growth, among other objective measures.

Re: Japan unveils first solar super-panel

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I like solar, but this is a press release with almost zero details. Not a product with an efficiency rating and price tag. Perovskites: non-silicon based semiconductors, in theory much cheaper for solar panels, in practice have lifetime issues.

It's a sales writeup:

"Japan unveils world’s first solar super-panel: More powerful than 20 nuclear reactors"

How can a "super-panel" be more powerful than twenty nuclear reactors? By letting salespeople write stuff, it seems.

Re: Japan unveils first solar super-panel

#43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Both wind and solar have deployed faster than nuclear ever did globally. And that's in Wh terms, you specify capacity but I guess you'd be annoyed if I replied that renewables beat that capacity easily, like China deploying 80GW of wind just last year. Here's an article looking at per capita increases show that France and Sweden did really well but renewables are accelerating past their records: https://www.sustainab…

except nuclear was prevented from growing by governments so let's not talk about how one grows faster than another

It's never succeeded without government backing. Most of the early reactors co-evolved with weapons programmes.
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