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EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy

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1041 points mpweiher | 7 comments | 12 Sep 25 18:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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tietjens ◴[12 Sep 25 18:25 UTC] No.45225051[source]▶
Article claims Germany is beginning to shift. I wouldn’t count on that. Despite having to import all of their energy aside from renewables, there is a wide-spread suspicion of nuclear here. The CDU made a lot of noise about it while they were in the opposition, but turning those closed plants back on is highly unlikely. Very costly and I’m not certain the expertise can be hired.
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kulahan ◴[12 Sep 25 18:39 UTC] No.45225195[source]▶
With AI on the horizon and each server farm using as much energy as a medium-sized city, I have no idea how they hope to meet demand otherwise, unless the plan is just some equivalent to "drill baby drill".
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1. pstuart ◴[12 Sep 25 19:02 UTC] No.45225446[source]▶
There's a new kind of "drill baby drill" which we should be embracing: geothermal energy. There's a lot of advancements in that space and it is a perfect base load generation source.
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2. kulahan ◴[12 Sep 25 19:26 UTC] No.45225693[source]▶
Geothermal is, imo, the only true competitor to nuclear. It's great at providing cheap, consistent, clean energy. Nuclear is really only needed for baseload generation, like when demand massively spikes.
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3. edbaskerville ◴[12 Sep 25 19:34 UTC] No.45225790[source]▶
Yeah, advanced geothermal is very interesting. They're taking fracking techniques and using them to get to hot rocks, which opens up geothermal to a much, much wider set of locations. Interested parties say it could provide everything we need beyond wind/solar, and seems much simpler than building out nuclear plants.

Check out:

https://www.volts.wtf/p/catching-up-with-enhanced-geothermal

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4. croes ◴[12 Sep 25 20:39 UTC] No.45226505[source]▶
If demand spikes nuclear power plants aren’t fast enough
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5. rootusrootus ◴[12 Sep 25 20:57 UTC] No.45226688[source]▶
> baseload generation, like when demand massively spikes

That is unlike any definition of baseload generation I have ever heard.

6. kulahan ◴[13 Sep 25 02:45 UTC] No.45228908{3}[source]▶
They are when the power spikes for the day, in a typically predictable fashion. I’m not sure of anything more available that isn’t really dirty.
7. pstuart ◴[13 Sep 25 05:56 UTC] No.45229685[source]▶
And leveraging fusion research to rethink how drilling is done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8sjdOjNxIE