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In the immediate term? 70-80% wind/solar works just great. Fill the remainder with gas plants or whatever else you got. Pick the high hanging fruit once that
by ajross 4y ago
In the immediate term? 70-80% wind/solar works just great. Fill the remainder with gas plants or whatever else you got. Pick the high hanging fruit once that's done. If nuclear wants to bid for that, then great. But it's gotta be an order of magnitude cheaper if it wants a piece. Right now, quite frankly, it's looking like it's going to be cheaper to store the wind in batteries and pumped hydro than it will be to break nuclei for that energy.
Everyone wants to have this fight on the fundamentals, but everything is about tradeoffs. Nuclear isn't losing because of out of control woke hippies or authoritarian regulators, it's losing because it costs too damn much.
- Arch-TK 4y agoIt costs too damn much _because_ of woke hippies and authoritarian regulators.