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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's because private companies are incapable of large scale engineering. They want fast profits, not stable infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nuclear is not going to help that. It doesn't synergize well with wind and solar. You want something that can scale up when wind and solar drop off. Nuclear only makes sense if you can run it at the same level all the time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's no reason you can't run it at the same level all the time?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

There is. Clouds come in, and all that cheap solar goes away. You want something else to ramp up. Clouds go away, solar is dumpling dirt cheap power to the grid, and those other things ramp down.

Nuclear is not the solution to that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Batteries and other power storage exist though.. just run nuclear to x% percentage and y exists in battery form to cover potential solar/wind/geothermal/tidal outages.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

When you have batteries, you don't need nuclear. You just need solar and wind.

Edit: I'll also point out that there are other arguments from nuclear advocates (bad ones that don't realize where we are in the tech development) saying storage solutions aren't ready. Estoppel much?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Clouds come in, and all that cheap solar goes away

I can't believe we're about to hit 2024 and people are still saying this.