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sunlight and wind, unionized into a power grid, working without a lunch break.
means energy generated from sources that naturally replenish, like sun, wind, and water, instead of ancient dead plants.
from the term crystallized in 1970s energy policy debates, when oil shocks made countries suddenly obsessed with sources that couldn't be cut off by a cartel.
cost crashsolar power costs dropped over 90 percent since 2010
biggest sourcehydropower still outproduces solar and wind combined
storage problembatteries, not generation, are the real bottleneck now
china dominancechina makes most of the world's solar panels