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[โ€“] larrikin99@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The MIT article is pro solar and pro renewable, and does discuss storage, hvdc transmission, load shifting and subsidies to reduce costs.

storage and system costs rise sharply once renewables provide the vast majority of electricity on the grid.

Why is that? Perhaps the problems the article poses with storage solutions boil down to:

inherently driven by a a capitalist profit motive