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EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy

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1041 points mpweiher | 8 comments | 12 Sep 25 18:18 UTC | HN request time: 1.113s | source | bottom
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jama211 ◴[12 Sep 25 19:19 UTC] No.45225631[source]▶
I’m totally fine with nuclear honestly, but I feel like I don’t understand something. No one seems to be able to give me a straight answer with proper facts that explain why we couldn’t just make a whole load more renewable energy generators instead. Sure, it might cost more, but in theory any amount of power a nuclear plant would generate could also be achieved with large amounts of renewables no?
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1. notatoad ◴[12 Sep 25 19:40 UTC] No.45225863[source]▶
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.

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2. fundatus ◴[12 Sep 25 20:54 UTC] No.45226642[source]▶
Nuclear also requires non-infinite resources like uranium.
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4. chickenbig ◴[13 Sep 25 06:18 UTC] No.45229763[source]▶
Wind and solar require non-infinite resources too.
5. tcfhgj ◴[13 Sep 25 06:39 UTC] No.45229861[source]▶
> Storage either requires non-renewable resources like lithium, or else large amounts of land

Neither, see gas caverns underground

6. peterfirefly ◴[13 Sep 25 07:36 UTC] No.45230106[source]▶
There's plenty for a few thousand years. We might have solved fusion power by then.
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7. LinXitoW ◴[13 Sep 25 08:38 UTC] No.45230419{3}[source]▶
How 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.
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