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Which completely ignores the differences between investment costs and running costs across different technologies.

Open cycles gas turbines are extremely cheap to build and expensive to run. For a green future these can be run on biofuels, hydrogen or hydrogen derivatives.

Therefore they perfectly complement renewables.

Nuclear power on the other hand is an awful companion due to having extremely large fixed costs and acceptable marginal running costs.




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