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Old 2nd-May-2008, 05:42 PM
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Renewable energy costs are falling so rapidly that virtually all will be cheaper than coal in 2016, and cheaper than nuclear by 2019
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I'd be quite interested to see the numerical data (and its basis) used to generate the graphs.



Indeed. I think their email address is on the web page, if you are interested in following up more detail. There is actually more graphs and some data in subsequent pages to this article / report, however I guess as they are presenting information to the public, there might be a limit to the amount of numerical data they can reasonably present for public consumption. I am of course presuming that their perhaps intention is to present a summary of the situation and use graphical representation where possible, to make it more palatable for Joe and Mary Public.

Note however they have provided a references list. URL as follows;
http://www.asfee.org/content/20-sources-references.html
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