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		pjc50 on April 29, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Japan unveils first solar super-panel > we have, fundamentally and quite deliberately, become worse at generating [nuclear] energy Yes. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014... Nuclear has a negative learning curve: it gets more expensive over time. Solar gets (spectacularly) cheaper over time. You might not like it but that's what the built infrastructure and its invoices tell us.

specialist on April 29, 2025 [–]

I'm very interested to see if China's current nuclear power generation build out manages to climb onto the cost-learning curve.

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