In the Age of Cheap Solar, Nuclear Is a Luxury Good
Big Tech drove the cost of solar, wind, and batteries to record lows. Now it is signing 20-year nuclear deals and Washington is doing the dumber version with your money.
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The energy transition is a power transition. Weekly, rigorously-sourced dispatches on how solar is remaking geopolitics — one country at a time, from the places nobody else covers.
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