What percentage of the earth's surface have little wind and solar? What percentage of the human population live there?

They have solar farms in Alaska and the Antarctic because it's cheaper than shipping in diesel for 6 months of the year.

And the law of economics making modular renewables cheaper is Wright's Law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effect

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nec4b 2 days ago | parent [-]

>>What percentage of the earth's surface have little wind and solar? What percentage of the human population live there?

Large parts of USA, Canada, non Mediterranean Europe and northern half of Asia. A lot of people live there.

>> And the law of economics making modular renewables cheaper is Wright's Law:

I asked which economic law makes ONLY renewables getting cheaper with time. Why couldn't nuclear get cheaper in time?

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ZeroGravitas 2 days ago | parent [-]

If you read the definition of wrights law it's fairly obvious.

> Wright's law, also known as the experience curve effect, states that as the cumulative production of a product doubles, the labor time or cost per unit declines by a fixed percentage

We're up to about 8 billion solar panels produced ever, maybe 2 billion or so a year now.

That's a lot of doublings.

There's been about 700 nuclear plants. Not a lot of doublings.

	▲	nec4b 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		>> We're up to about 8 billion solar panels produced ever, maybe 2 billion or so a year now. You need a lot of panels to match one nuclear power plant though, and they were/are heavily subsidized. >> There's been about 700 nuclear plants. Not a lot of doublings. Obviously, because there was/is a lot pressure against building them. I think China demonstrates, that they can be built rather quickly and cheaper and cheaper, if the obstacles are removed. It's not really a fair competition when something heavily subsidized and the other thing is almost banned.