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I'm not an expert on these things, but Nuclear has its uses and there are places where Solar/Wind doesn't make sense and we will need to fill in the energy gaps
by DiscourseFan 3y ago
I'm not an expert on these things, but Nuclear has its uses and there are places where Solar/Wind doesn't make sense and we will need to fill in the energy gaps with something cleaner than coal and natural gas. I just don't think giant batteries that have to be serviced every so often is a viable solution for places that don't get a lot of sun year round.
- pfdietz 3y agoWell, you can check that belief against evidence at this site: https://model.energy/ https://model.energy/ Surprisingly, at very high latitudes there's a ginormous amount of wind. Also, using batteries as the only storage modality is Dumb Engineering. (Polar regions are not a good use case for nuclear anyway, due to almost total lack of people. The largest grid in Alaska has an average power flow of just 600 MW, btw, and Alaska is highly populated compared to, say, the nothern provinces of Canada.)