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Storage will not complete anything in time to be useful. Hydro storage is dependent on geography, and most locations are already tapped. Battery storage is much

• natmaka 3y ago
  > Storage will not complete anything in time to be useful You have a case here, however this is even truer for nuclear reactors, especially considering the known uranium reserves (max 2 hundred years for the existing fleet). Hydro: yes, it is not negligible (robust, vasts amounts of energy, low inertia, flexible...), especially as continental grids are quickly progressing. Battery storage is a prerequisite for transport (Electrical Vehicles), this considerably reduces public investments. About mined resources the challenge is to ramp up mining, moreover substitutes and recycling will reduce the pressure. Case: https://twitter.com/_HannahRitchie/status/1610948579790655490 https://twitter.com/_HannahRitchie/status/161094857979065549...
  • himinlomax 3y ago
    200 years is plenty of time to deploy fast neutron reactors. Hell we had a large non-experimental one in France until it was killed by ecoterrorists.
    • natmaka 3y ago
      There is no industrial fast-neutron reactor, and therefore nothing (yet) to deploy. Superphenix, in France, never reached the industrial stage. Incidents-riddled, its best performance was, after 13 years, a .31 annual load factor.
      • himinlomax 3y ago
        It was running properly when it was shut down. Development had it issues, but they were mostly sorted out when the entirely political decision to shut it down was taken.
        • natmaka 3y ago
          During it's last year its capacity factor (.31) was way too low for an industrial reactor.