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So distribute fission and fusion, overcomes much of that. And distributed solar and wind needs backup which is usually fairly centralized. Unless you want to spend 3-5 times as much for your energy to buy batteries.


Fusion needs to be distributed well away from population centres. Until we've had enough contained failures of the "intrinsically safe" reactors to be convinced that it's actually true.




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