cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/68257855
Nuclear is the best btw.
this post was submitted on 05 May 2026
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Get lost with your expensive nuclear energy. Renewables produce MUCH cheaper energy.
But for a stable network you need to account for times with no sun and no wind.
If we had a stable and international network, there would be not a time without sun or wind.
Tell me, are the room temperature superconductors with us in this room now?
Building out capacity to transport a massive amount of energy over thousands of kilometers isn't really that great either. Also, when it comes to night this is kinda not possible to avoid
Nuclear is a bad fit for that, because it's too expensive and has poor "reaction times" compared to other energy sources.
If we didn't fight Nuclear energy for decades we wouldn't have been in half as much trouble as we are in now. But the oil companies won with their smear campaigns.
Renewable energy is cheaper now, but that wasn't always the case. Also nuclear can be part of solving some of the issues with renewable energy. We can build massive battery banks and double our number of solar farms so that we have power when the sun goes down or we can reduce the need and incorporate nuclear
Nuclear is an either or situation. Either nuclear or renewables. It makes no sense to build a nuclear plant and not run it at 100%. They are way too expensive for that. That means your energy prices will not go down even though we have incredibly cheap energy available. Nuclear is not cheap, not renewable and obtaining the nuclear material another problem on it's own.
No its not, how did you make up that conclusion? You can absolutely have both and you should.
Nuclear can be used to reduce the need for rather expensive storage for solar/wind energy.
You know what many places do now when solar falls short or at nighttime when the sun does not shine? They burn gas, oil, or coal.
Yes and that nuclear power plant is not shut down at day time. Instead renewables will be throttled if there is an overproduction. That is the either/or scenario that I mean. Every watt that is produced by a nuclear power plant is pretty much a constant and displaces renewables. It also keeps the base energy costs high because they are constantly running.
By putting a higher percentage on nuclear you reduce the need to create storage capabilities. Nuclear should ideally cover a majority of nighttime hours with the rest being handled through solar storage and wind.
Yes this will be more expensive than the current solution which is to fire up the coal plants at night, but some costs are worth it. Maybe this can be handled by battery storage, but no one has done that yet so it is hard to gage the final cost.
I care just a little more about not burning fossil fuels than the cost
Get lost with fossil fuels. In the time that enough nuclear is built we can build enough storage and renewables to make coal, gas and nuclear mostly obsolete.