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A valid concern but these are a lot harder to replace than nuclear power plants. Electricity and heat are fungible, chemical products are not. You can't replace
by _Microft 4y ago
A valid concern but these are a lot harder to replace than nuclear power plants. Electricity and heat are fungible, chemical products are not. You can't replace sulfuric acid with water.
- replygirl 4y agobased on how grids have fared over the last decade, you also can't replace nuclear with wind, solar, and batteries.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoYeah, those batteries that have been struggling to keep above 70% uptime for the decade suddenly going offline en masse due to safety issues are a huge problwm
- replygirl 4y agothat _is_ more likely with batteries, just put them somewhere especially cold or hot--like near an offshore wind farm or a desert solar array--and cut power to the thermal management. they're also more flammable and easier to use as an explosive than a modern reactor
- Schroedingersat 4y ago> more flammable and easier to use as an explosive than a modern reactor So we're good for 1 year or so of primary energy via PWRs? After that the fuel runs out for reactors that aren't made of 100s of tonnes of liquid sodium each (and have no evidence of working reliably or not catching fire and being shut down for a year every few months), or (assuming they actually ever work) contain 0.5% of the entire world reserves of beryllium each.
- replygirl 4y agoi think this needs an edit, it's not a complete sentence (missing a predicate and/or object for the clause after "before"). don't know what you're trying to say
- Schroedingersat 4y agoLight water reactor run out of fuel. Fast breeder reactor catch fire constantly. LFTR is scifi made of incredibly toxic unobtanium. Nuclear just way of moving power and money into hands of 5 companies while achieving nothing. Happy?
- replygirl 4y agoi mean you're deploying caveman talk at me because you're so into this you assumed i'm stupid instead of realizing you forgot to write a complete sentence, so at the moment no i'm not happy if you're gonna stoop to that level the only other thing i'll say is "battery get cold go offline. battery get hot go offline. knife go in galaxy note 8 make go boom. armor piercing shell like same."