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Hand-waving away the transmission/storage required to make intermittent energy sources "reliable" does not magically make them trivial, or even solved, problems
by mcronce 4y ago
Hand-waving away the transmission/storage required to make intermittent energy sources "reliable" does not magically make them trivial, or even solved, problems.
I don't really care whether or not nukes are cheap when they're the only reliable low-carbon energy source we have, and when they're the safest energy source we have. Some things are more fundamentally important than economics.
- ncmncm 4y agoYet, people deciding where to spend their own money are spending it on solar. Nukes are always built with money coerced from other people.
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- pfdietz 4y agoWe can look at simulations using actual historical weather data and actual cost estimates to determine how much it would cost to deal with intermittency of wind/solar using storage. The result is something that looks cheaper than fission (or cheap than fusion is likely to achieve.) https://model.energy/ https://model.energy/
- rapsey 4y agoIf solar/wind is used to make hydrogen when they are available, you have a energy generating loop that provides energy usable at any time.