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>We'll learn how to shift a lot of industrial production around if the price goes low enough. Are you going to send everyone home on overcast days? What if pr
by dev_tty01 2y ago
>We'll learn how to shift a lot of industrial production around if the price goes low enough.
Are you going to send everyone home on overcast days? What if production needs to run 24/7? Solar is a whole solution if and only if storage is solved on a massive scale. Even with adequate storage, it still isn't going to work in some parts of the world or during certain seasons.
In the end, I think we need a mix of energy sources and working to make nuclear cost effective is part of a practical low carbon energy future. I just don't understand the confrontational nature of the solar vs. nuclear argument. Solar is absolutely going to be a huge part of our energy future. Supplementation by cost-effective nuclear would be a great complement to solar. Nuclear costs might not ever get low enough, but we'll never know if we don't put serious effort behind the goal.
- kragen 2y agoyes, i completely agree; i'm skeptical that nuclear will make it in the next decades, but certainly it's worth continued research