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Wind/solar are always wind/solar + something else. That something else is usually pipelined gas.
by peterfirefly 3y ago
Wind/solar are always wind/solar + something else. That something else is usually pipelined gas.
- marssaxman 3y agoThat's true, but I am talking about the economic problem: who is going to spend $30 billion on a decade-long project to build a nuclear plant, when the same money could buy twice as many megawatts' worth of renewables and start returning on the investment in a year? Of course it would be a good thing for us all if someone would replace all those gas plants with nuclear, but it's hard to see why anyone who had the money to do that would choose to spend it that way.
- peterfirefly 3y agoIf our safety requirements for wind and solar were as onerous as they are for nuclear power, then the economic equation would be completely flipped around. (Plus we currently don't have the wind/solar providers pay for the gas plants -- and the costs of ensuring a constant supply of gas. That cost is currently measured in leopard tanks and stinger missiles... and in Ukrainian soldiers but that's an externality we are not paying for.) How do we change that? Advocate for nuclear power. Tell every nasty little "green" politician that we hate them and their lies.