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Originally Posted by FurnaceFace

Somewhat related, I found this article about coal vs solar in India interesting. You could say "well, that's in India" but I think the limitations they find there are interesting when it comes to solar farms.

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/climate-change-in-india/

I haven't read it yet, do they go into what an effort it would be to convert from coal to solar?

I remember reading an article about it a few years ago and basically the problem was that to convert they'd need to monopolize the world's output of multiple resources (like concrete, steel) for 25 years or something.

The argument was that Nuclear was at least possible since, while still using lots of steel and concrete, it was far far less per GW.

Anyway it was interesting.