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Nuclear Power Still Doesn’t Make Much Sense
- guerby 4y agohttps://archive.ph/vqZXX https://archive.ph/vqZXX
- guerby 4y agoMy favourite part: There’s an opportunity cost “of waiting around for a nuclear reactor to be built when you could have spent that money on wind or solar and got rid of emissions much faster,” Jacobson said. This cost may be particularly onerous when you consider the rapid advancement in battery technology, which can help address the main shortcoming of renewable power: its intermittency. The price of lithium-ion batteries has dropped by about 97 percent since they were introduced in 1991, and prices are projected to keep falling.
- 57FkMytWjyFu 4y agoI wonder what the 'levelized cost' is when you take in to account the massive changes that need to take place to move renewable energy from where it is generated, to where it is consumed. Our grid isn't ready.