what are we supposed to do when it’s not sunny, or if we live in parts of the world that don’t see much/any sun, and it’s not windy. batteries? you already know we aren’t at a point that is viable yet, we’ll get there, not today. what are we supposed to do when the entire plant scales up the demand for solar panels to replace the lack of nuclear, and suddenly there isn’t enough scale to fulfil that demand and prices skyrocket.
I want a future of energy stability that is able to handle a changing climate, and changing political climates. I want a world where people have endless, cheap, free, low carbon cost energy without it being the plaything of whoever is a political leader this week. a combination of nuclear, solar, wind and anything else we can throw in there does that.
going all in on just two that have similar problems, does not.
Yeah. Most of the science youtube channels have done videos on “why not just plaster all of Africa with solar panels”. And aside from the ecological issues (which hydroelectric dams also have), it mostly boils down to being able to transfer/“share” that energy with other regions.
The vast majority of energy should come from renewables like wind and solar (hydro… we’ve probably already done the horrifying damage so keep them?). But we need alternative sources to handle peak demand and low production days. And nuclear is actually really good for that.
because you wanna be combative, I’ll be the same.
what are we supposed to do when it’s not sunny, or if we live in parts of the world that don’t see much/any sun, and it’s not windy. batteries? you already know we aren’t at a point that is viable yet, we’ll get there, not today. what are we supposed to do when the entire plant scales up the demand for solar panels to replace the lack of nuclear, and suddenly there isn’t enough scale to fulfil that demand and prices skyrocket.
I want a future of energy stability that is able to handle a changing climate, and changing political climates. I want a world where people have endless, cheap, free, low carbon cost energy without it being the plaything of whoever is a political leader this week. a combination of nuclear, solar, wind and anything else we can throw in there does that.
going all in on just two that have similar problems, does not.
Yeah. Most of the science youtube channels have done videos on “why not just plaster all of Africa with solar panels”. And aside from the ecological issues (which hydroelectric dams also have), it mostly boils down to being able to transfer/“share” that energy with other regions.
The vast majority of energy should come from renewables like wind and solar (hydro… we’ve probably already done the horrifying damage so keep them?). But we need alternative sources to handle peak demand and low production days. And nuclear is actually really good for that.