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Base load Base load Base load Any green energy plan that dismisses nuclear without addressing base load issues with a concrete plan (no future tech that does

• raxxorrax 5y ago
  It is important to mix your energy, but it is an insufficient argument. https://www.nrdc.org/experts/kevin-steinberger/debunking-three-myths-about-baseload https://www.nrdc.org/experts/kevin-steinberger/debunking-thr...
• pfdietz 5y ago
  The technology for addressing baseload exists: renewables, batteries, and long term chemical storage (like hydrogen). All these exist, it's just a matter of pushing the costs down via deployment and experience. If you object to these because they are not scaled out, I will point out that a nuclear powered world will also need new tech of that kind: either seawater uranium extraction on a massive scale, or a breeder-based fuel cycle. Existing burner reactors would, if they powered the entire world, exhaust available uranium resources in just a few years.