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Anon questions our energy sector (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (37 children)

As long as you don't care when the electricity is produced

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (31 children)

Storage is a solvable problem. Whereas we don't have the resources to power the world with nuclear plants.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (28 children)

Storage is a solvable problem

I'm not convinced it is. Storage technologies exist for sure, but the general public seems to grossly underestimate the scale of storage required to match grid demand and renewables only production.

[–] jaemo 2 points 3 months ago

Ok but maybe a counterpoint is we are overestimating the ability of the atmosphere and ocean to absorb CO2 and maintain a habitable planet. I'd rather store isotopes in the earth (where they came from anyway) than carbon in the air.

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