• frezik@midwest.social
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      10 months ago

      There is. Clouds come in, and all that cheap solar goes away. You want something else to ramp up. Clouds go away, solar is dumpling dirt cheap power to the grid, and those other things ramp down.

      Nuclear is not the solution to that.

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        10 months ago

        Batteries and other power storage exist though… just run nuclear to x% percentage and y exists in battery form to cover potential solar/wind/geothermal/tidal outages.

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          10 months ago

          When you have batteries, you don’t need nuclear. You just need solar and wind.

          Edit: I’ll also point out that there are other arguments from nuclear advocates (bad ones that don’t realize where we are in the tech development) saying storage solutions aren’t ready. Estoppel much?

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        10 months ago

        Clouds come in, and all that cheap solar goes away

        I can’t believe we’re about to hit 2024 and people are still saying this.