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Nuclear has obvious advantages as a network baseline and if you think about it all energy is nuclear. Also, usually the choice posed is not nuclear or solar, i
by RealityVoid 8y ago
Nuclear has obvious advantages as a network baseline and if you think about it all energy is nuclear.
Also, usually the choice posed is not nuclear or solar, it's nuclear vs coal.
And, from my point of view,(although this might sound like an insane, non-pragmatic issue I am thinking about) if we, as a species ever want to become a multiplanetary species, mastering nuclear is a must. That way we will be able to create our own, micro-solar system wherever we will go.
- justatdotin 8y ago> usually the choice posed is not nuclear or solar, it's nuclear vs coal. usually? historically. sure last century that was the choice. Today, no one in their right mind would build either a nuclear or a coal plant. in my part of the world, there is no coal, no nuclear, only solar and gas. And the solar is cheaper than the gas. Coal and nuclear cant get a look in, and no one is going to build a new gas plant. But new solar is popping up all around me, at block, microgrid and array scale.
- thewhitetulip 8y agoExactly. We need solar because it is distributed. For nuclear we need a lot of money, and it is dangerous. Coal is horrible. Solar is cheap and much better
- lispm 8y ago> obvious advantages as a network baseline Given that they are currently large centralized reactors with very little flexibility, combining them with distributed solar makes no sense.