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It means I don’t see renewables getting us to a point where people can consume 100x the energy they currently do. Fusion could get us there. OOM increases in e
by brycesbeard 7y ago
It means I don’t see renewables getting us to a point where people can consume 100x the energy they currently do. Fusion could get us there.
OOM increases in energy tend to correspond with huge improvements in quality of life. I don’t see renewables getting ya there.
- pfdietz 7y agoWhy do you not see renewables getting to that point? I see no physical or (soon) economic constraint from them doing so. In particular, the levelized cost of renewables are already much lower than new nuclear fission, and fusion will almost certainly be even more expensive than fission. That advantage will make even use of low efficiency storage more economical than baseload nuclear (fission or fusion) plants.