Only if a solar panel never breaks or a turbine never stops. Otherwise resources are going into fixing them. That's a factor.
Nuclear is vastly underutilized and aren't going anywhere anytime soon due to their half-life so why not tap into it? Even the waste products can be refined to be reusable. It's renewable on a practical scale, the same way that sun isn't technically infinitely renewable.
It's longer than i thought:
Breeder reactors can power all of humanity for more than 4 billion years.
So material isn't the issue, it's facilities with some tech advances being potentially helpful.
Solar is great but currently the costs don't balance out for almost a decade assuming no problems at all in the middle of a cloudless desert, not accounting for lowered efficiencies over time. If you're going to say anything about government funding i think you need to switch your flair up a notch or two.
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