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How is nuclear energy superior to solar energy?

• nomel 1y ago
  Within the context of space, solar doesn't work to well when you move away from earth. By mars, you're already down almost 30%!
  • m4rtink 1y ago
    You could use some sort of beamed power/powersat eventually at those distances (using a sending station from a place with a lot of solar power, like Mercury) but that's signifficant infrastructure and ways of right now.
    • nomel 1y ago
      With the difficulties of cooling things in space, satellites sending/absorbing massive amounts of energy seems like a hard problem.
• m4rtink 1y ago
  Solar energy is nuclear energy! ;-)
  • Alive-in-2025 1y ago
    But it is used, recycled. We only want pristine first order energy sources.