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ignoring the fact that we live in the real world where money isn't infinite: nuclear provides stable base power generation, and it does it without taking up a l
by notatoad 1y ago
ignoring the fact that we live in the real world where money isn't infinite: nuclear provides stable base power generation, and it does it without taking up a lot of space.
Renewables produce power intermittently, and require storage to match demand. Storage either requires non-renewable resources like lithium, or else large amounts of land. in theory yes, any amount of power could be produced by renewables, but in practice renewables require other non-infinite resources to turn the power they generate into actual usable electricity coming out of your wall socket.
- fundatus 1y agoNuclear also requires non-infinite resources like uranium.
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- chickenbig 1y agoWind and solar require non-infinite resources too.
- peterfirefly 1y agoThere's plenty for a few thousand years. We might have solved fusion power by then.
- LinXitoW 1y agoHow plenty is the supply that's not in some other countries control, that might make us dependent on them, yet again, like with Germany, gas and Russia.
- tcfhgj 1y ago> Storage either requires non-renewable resources like lithium, or else large amounts of land Neither, see gas caverns underground
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