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Cost is all-important. Ignoring cost makes anything you write irrelevant. The US is not the only user or producer of energy. A comprehensive solution needs to
by ncmncm 4y ago
Cost is all-important. Ignoring cost makes anything you write irrelevant.
The US is not the only user or producer of energy. A comprehensive solution needs to carry everybody. If tropical country A will not sell you synthetic fuel, you may buy from B, C, D, E, F, G, or H, or some from each. There can be no embargo on sunshine. The US gets plenty, too.
There is no room for nukes in any solution, because nukes cannot produce at a price that A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H cannot all beat. Its ask wins no bids. This is predictable, so it will find no financiers, excepting only corrupt governments that will initiate ruinously expensive projects, then cancel them long before completion. The projects will not give back so much as a penny handed them.
- _-david-_ 4y agoYou again didn't answer my question. How much storage should we have? Reliability and not relying on other countries are extremely important issues. They are widely held as important issues by many people. I would rather pay more to not rely on another country and to ensure we can have consistent production. There can be embargo on countries. What happens to Russia in this situation? Maybe they can get power from China, but maybe not. They will have thousands of people freeze to death without power.
- ncmncm 4y agoWe should have as much storage as we need. How much do we have now? Even Russia gets plenty of sunshine and wind. And if they stop invading other countries, they will not even be embargoed.