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Help me understand: isn’t solar a dead end? The sun doesn’t always shine, we need to 10,000x our battery capacity to run the world on solar, and we’d be strip mining the Earth for those battery metals. Nuclear is the only way. Obsession with solar only furthers oil (see Germany).
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Nuclear is good for base load. But US has more than enough sunshine. Other countries, not so much.
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maybe ur looking at the middle of the curve? like before inflection point?
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This tweet puts this well into context: https://x.com/AukeHoekstra/status/1792524009311031731 Yes, nuclear is better than fossil and coal power plants should have been shut down instead of nuclear plants but shutting down nuclear caused only a temporary increase in the burning of coal.
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You can meet a huge chunk of the energy demand in most places even with current prices and technologies for solar energy and energy storage. But both still improving rapidly. Good blog post about this: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2023/07/12/grid-storage-batteries-will-win/ https://warpcast.com/s5eeo/0xf63670f7
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Idk much here but assume the same time it’ll take to get nuclear right we’ll have solved storage and bandwidth for solar
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why not both?
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Batteries are a dead end eventually
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also Hydrogen
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Batteries have come a long way. See sodium ion batteries. You can also make batteries by pumping water up and letting it drop when you need energy. Nuclear is too late, it takes to long to build..
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Maybe you didn't hear.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_accident
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Solar is not a dead end, no. We need a diverse basket of energy generation and localised energy generation is crucial for independence. We do not need batteries to get the value out of solar, it is very cost effective without them. The truth is we need a bit of everything and the more energy generation the merrier.
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Lithium ion batteries aren’t the only method we have of storing energy. Think hydrogen, pumped hydro, gravity storage, etc. Of course it varies depending on what country you are. In Australia we have super spaced out infra and population, we don’t even have a single grid, so nuclear is a mid option for here imo.
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