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m101 ◴[] No.45230060[source]
I think a good exercise for the reader is to reflect on why they were ever against nuclear power in the first place. Nuclear power was always the greenest, most climate friendly, safest, cheapest (save for what we do to ourselves), most energy dense, most long lasting, option.
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kolinko ◴[] No.45230658[source]
So far it was either the cheapest or the safest.

Also, solar is now both cheaper and safer.

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pzo ◴[] No.45230728[source]
but it's not 24/7 and europe even worse in winter and fall. Solar is unrealistic to replace most energy usage [1]. In EU it's just less than 5% usage. In germany less than 6% usage. And wind is not a replacement either (less than 11% energy usage in germany).

And just for comparison in france nuclear power plants provides 37% of energy

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...

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zekrioca ◴[] No.45233578[source]
Have you ever heard of batteries?
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ackfoobar ◴[] No.45235015[source]
Have you done the math of how insufficient battery tech is, if we are to go 100% renewable? I'm so tired of renewable proponents just use the thought terminating cliche "BATTERIES!" when intermittency is brought up.
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1. zekrioca ◴[] No.45245672[source]
https://www.tesla.com/megapack
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2. ackfoobar ◴[] No.45254345[source]
Asked for numbers, got a link. Let's see.

They can manufacture 80 GWh a year. To get through dunkelflaute with moderate renewable percentage we need tens of TWh. Not to belittle Tesla, but that's 3 orders of magnitude difference.

Are you changing your mind or can you give me numbers to change mine?