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Why do you think nuclear is necessary? Nuclear is stagnating at just 10% of global electricity and renewables are rapidly growing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi

• tpmx 6y ago
  There is no remotely efficent way to store very large volumes of electricity. Wind power works great sometimes, but we need electricity that works all of the the time. > Nuclear is stagnating at just 10% of global electricity At the moment the slack is increasingly being picked up by burning coal or oil. That's bad.
  • rurban 6y ago
    There is, at that's exactly how we do it for that last 100 years. Pumped-storage hydroelectricity. About 80% efficiency, and 95% of electricity is stored this way. Burning fossils is of course stupid. > Pumped storage is by far the largest-capacity form of grid energy storage available, and, as of 2020, the United States Department of Energy Global Energy Storage Database reports that PSH accounts for around 95% of all active tracked storage installations worldwide, with a total installed throughput capacity of over 181 GW. Wikipedia
    • tpmx 6y ago
      (Sorry, quite late reply.) Pumped storage requires: a) quite large height differentials b) a sizeable lake of water to be filled/emptied when needed. For most places this simply isn't practical.