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Nuclear capacity is expected to rise by 14% by 2030 and surge by 76% to 686 GWe by 2040, the report said

This is only good news if it displaces thermal coal and gas generating stations.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

doesn't nuclear require less land than renewables?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ofc. Looking at people who put solar panels on their roofs, it is enough for a household. Apartments use less power, but have much less roof per apartment. And industries use more power then households.

I think it's feasible (including electric cars), especially since we got hydro and stuff.

Real Engineering on youtube did calculations and such, so i recommend people to look there.

PS Funny how wind and hydro are just indirect solar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The United States has enough land paved over for parking spaces to have 8 spaces per car - 5% of the land. If just 10% of that space was used to generate solar electricity - a mere 0.5% - that would generate enough solar power to provide electricity to the entire country. By comparison, around 50% of the land is agricultural. The amount of land used by renewable sources is not a real problem, it’s an argument used by the very wealthy pro-nuclear lobby to justify the huge amounts of funding that they currently receive.

[–] pec 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the other remaining 7 parking spaces per car?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

now these renewable zealots are waging a war on cars!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I honestly can’t tell if this is sarcastic anymore, internet arguments are so stupid they defy parody at this point :P