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Nuclear remains the only carbon-free dispatchable source of energy, besides geographically limited options like hydroelectricity and geothermal power. Any reali
by Manuel_D 4y ago
Nuclear remains the only carbon-free dispatchable source of energy, besides geographically limited options like hydroelectricity and geothermal power. Any realistic plan to decarbonize energy grids has large proportions of nuclear power. The ones that don't assume some some form of extremely efficient form of storage will come along and make storage costs negligible.
- ncmncm 4y agoThe real plans recognize numerous cheap forms of storage are already well known, and will be built out after there is something to charge them from other than burning carbon. Efficiency has become much less important than capital cost because solar and wind have become so cheap.
- Manuel_D 4y agoCuriously, despite being "already well known" and "numerous" you neglect to actually mention any such storage system. Because then you'd actually have to defend the claims of such miraculously cheap storage. We've been down this road plenty of times before: we have no known way of storing energy at the required scales, your plan essentially amounts to "hope compressed air, hydrogen, or some other exotic form of storage becomes nearly-free".