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Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by natch on Thursday December 22, 2016 @09:58AM (#13237596)
As long as we're exploring hypothetical choices, would you prefer to live near a nuclear plant over living in a house with energy provided by solar tiles on the roof?
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Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by nine_k on Thursday December 22, 2016 @10:39AM (#13237926)
Works well in e.g. California. May work less well in Maine. Especially when it snows.

Much of Europe and US is situated too far north for trouble-free solar operation. Other power sources do make sense there (or, for me, "here").

I keep hearing that several hundred thousand square miles of solar panels in Sahara could power the entire hemisphere. They could if transportation was 100% efficient. Even if we pretend that we can build humongous power lines out of superconducting material, maintaining them is going to cost us a lot still.

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Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by coredog64 on Thursday December 22, 2016 @10:10AM (#13237685)
Yes, because I like to have power at night ;)
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Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by natch on Thursday December 22, 2016 @10:39AM (#13237927)
Since you seem not to have thought of it, you can also get power from the grid at night. Or from batteries. The grid gets its power from diverse sources.

So your logic doesn't quite hold up.

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Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by phil21 on Thursday December 22, 2016 @12:03PM (#13238572)
Your logic doesn't hold up. You cannot ignore externalities when... arguing against them to begin with.

I'd much rather live with a nuclear power station in my backyard, than install solar knowing I'm robbing those who can't afford it for my usage of the free grid battery.

Rooftop solar as implemented today is not sustainable, and is a regressive tax.

So the only honest way to do this is with your own energy storage - e.g. batteries. I do agree the allure of being completely off-grid sounds great, until you price it out. So I choose nuclear reactor in my backyard until energy storage tech catches up.

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Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by Graphon1 on Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:25PM (#13240522)
> Rooftop solar as implemented today is not sustainable, and is a regressive tax.

So are electric cars. Both are solvable problems, and will be solved as adoption increases.

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Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by lloeki on Thursday December 22, 2016 @10:24AM (#13237800)
Smooth out power delivery with energy storage such as batteries?
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Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by mason240 on Thursday December 22, 2016 @11:28AM (#13238288)
Still nuclear. And it would be easier to take the solar advocate more seriously if they weren't also opposed to mining for the very materials they made from.
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