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It's expensive but also the only technology that can provide large amount of electricity on demand regardless of the natural resources available (hydro is limit
by Krssst 2y ago
It's expensive but also the only technology that can provide large amount of electricity on demand regardless of the natural resources available (hydro is limited by the need for mountains; should still build as much as possible but it's not enough).
NPPs can do load following: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-following_power_plant#Nuclear_power_plants https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-following_power_plant#N...
Of course if we don't care about the climate gas and coal plants are cheaper (assuming cheap gas and cheap coal)
- nothercastle 2y agoCoal is about as safe as nuclear except more radioactive but occupies a similar spot in being non demand based. Gas has no good alternative all grids need some gas right now.
- sofixa 2y agoCoal isn't as safe as nuclear. More people have died in coal power generation incidents that nuclear power ones; add in the deaths due to the air pollution from coal and it's not even close to being comparable. > Gas has no good alternative all grids need some gas right now Batteries are good peaked plant replacements.