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> However, the biggest problem with solar thermal technology is cloudy days and nighttime. Abbott plans to investigate a number of storage solutions for this in
by guscost 7y ago
> However, the biggest problem with solar thermal technology is cloudy days and nighttime. Abbott plans to investigate a number of storage solutions for this intermittency problem, which also plagues other renewable energy solutions such as wind power, in a future study.
This is a much harder problem to solve than all of the listed problems with fission, many of which are misrepresented or exaggerated. For example:
> If a nuclear reactor is built every day, the global supply of these exotic metals needed to build nuclear containment vessels would quickly run down and create a mineral resource crisis.
When a nuclear reactor is built every day, we'll be able to get all the resources we need for anything from asteroids.