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To completely replace fossil fuel, you need a lot of nuclear plants and nuclear materials and transmission lines. For renewables you can handle a lot of the loa
by onethought 4y ago
To completely replace fossil fuel, you need a lot of nuclear plants and nuclear materials and transmission lines. For renewables you can handle a lot of the load near the consumption point and only need to transmit the “night load” which is usually much less.
- ETH_start 4y agoI recommend you look at the estimates on how much storage and/or transmission lines are needed to go full renewable.
- ncmncm 4y agoPeople will "estimate" all kinds of things according to their favored assumptions. Most are worth the paper they are printed on.
- ETH_start 4y agoSo if we can't trust statistics provided, how are we supposed to collectively discuss and reason about the options to determine the most economical one?
- onethought 4y agoHow many nuclear plants are required to go fully nuclear? I haven’t seen those estimates at all which is interesting