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#57 – Greg Nemet on Technological Change and How Solar Became Cheap

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Small Modular Reactors - Are They Better Than Large Scale?

I think we need lots of different approaches and there's places that solar won't be helpful, like making cement. But I don't go all the way into the portfolio. There is more and more evidence that these small scale technologies get adopted more quickly and learn more quickly than large scale technology. It's probably going to turn out that small scale technologies are more scalable can get bigger than large scale ones for a variety of factors.

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