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>Nuclear power is the only solution but decades of delusion have made it impossible to build anywhere. In short industrial civilization will be non-viable in th
by econcon 7y ago
>Nuclear power is the only solution but decades of delusion have made it impossible to build anywhere. In short industrial civilization will be non-viable in the tropics by the 2050s and world wide by the 2100s.
I wonder why they don't find a location on planet which is most stable, away from human settlement.
Then create a nuclear reactor large enough to meet all the world requirement for electricity and supply it to all the world.
- akvadrako 7y agoBecause the cost of transmission will be even higher. Moving large amounts of electricity over large distances is hard; it’s much cheaper to move gas or oil.
- Animats 7y agoNot any more. China's longest power transmission link is 3324 km. 1.1 megavolts DC. 12 gigawatts. Running for over a year. Equivalent to moving 30 million tons of coal per year. China's cheap power sources (coal and hydro) are in the northwestern part of the country, and the big loads are in the southeastern part. So many HVDC links are going in. The US's biggest HVDC link is Oregon to California, opened in 1970.
- akvadrako 7y agoInteresting, though I would like to see more cost comparisons. Some negatives I've found are UHV lines used for renewable transmission will see low utilization and the switching equipment is quite unreliable so overcapacity is needed. I did find a book with some details in case anyone wants to dig deeper: Ultra-high Voltage AC/DC Power Transmission (2018) (http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=7AF7982201735A290D81BD2AC789B860 http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=7AF7982201735A290D8...)