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>Solar/renewable could foster entirely energy independent countries with a ton of storage or my preferred option, a global grid having sun 24/7 and robust to se
by kleene_op 4y ago
>Solar/renewable could foster entirely energy independent countries with a ton of storage or my preferred option, a global grid having sun 24/7 and robust to seasons due to production on both hemispheres.
That's pretty cool but I'd rather we achieved energy independence this millennia.
- freemint 4y agoBuilding under sea cables between asia and europe already exist, an undersea cable between NA and Europe would be profitable, so would be a cross Mediterranean power connection.
- ncmncm 4y agoAnything but renewables brings global catastrophe and civilization collapse nearer. Collapse of civilization would deliver a kind of energy independence, but maybe not the kind you want. Power from renewables is so radically cheaper than anything else ever known that not building it out as fast as possible costs strictly more. That building out renewables fast enough might fend off global catastrophe is an extra benefit. Building nukes would steal capital from building out renewables.
- forum_ghost 4y agoWhy is a nuclear reactor in the sky "renewable", but a nuclear reactor in France isn't?
- ncmncm 4y agoI will direct your question to a uranium miner. In any case, NG aside the important distinction nowadays is between technologies with and without substantial opex: NG, nukes and geo are on one side, wind and solar on the other. And capex, same division except NG generation infrastructure is readily retrofitted for synthetic fuel. Wind and solar are so radically much cheaper all around that it makes no sense to talk about building anything else.
- freemint 4y agoBecause for one we literally pull some resource we have a finite amount of out of the ground, while for other one, we do not.