derek
@derek
Why is nuclear becoming the energy darling when solar is so clearly better? Solar is already proven to work at a variety of scales, has little-to-no downside, and needs to only become more efficient and ubiquitous.
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Dan Romero
@dwr.eth
Base load. Batteries not there yet to solve for intermittency.
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Stuart
@olystuart
Yeah the most obvious energy solutions the USA is seriously slacking on are a large scale national solar maximization campaign, and a new smart energy grid with a lot of focus on energy storage and localization. Nuclear is interesting too now that the technology is a lot better but the main problem with nuclear is it's not cost efficient without massive subsidies. It's an option where needed but it's not superior to solar.
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Samuel ツ
@samuellhuber.eth
what makes solar clearly better?
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osama
@osama
I used to look at this from a $/kwh lens but his take on going compact over time changed my opinion https://youtu.be/lzmff4K5KKw?si=45CmYGKZGXdgMx7N&t=34
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ns
@nickysap
Isn’t the process for creating panels pretty reliant on fossil fuels?
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shazow
@shazow.eth
On top of what others said: More upside exists in the technology. Solar has maybe x2 room for improvement left (we'll never exceed 100% efficiency and unlikely to even approach it), nuclear is a deep tech tree that is maybe x4 in the medium term and up to x1000 in the long term.
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alixkun🟣🎩🍡
@alixkun
Renewable energies are not programmable. Its very hard to build consistent nation wide policies relying solely on them. I believe thats why nuclear is so popular, its because it has the best ven diagram of clean and efficient.
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