Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed)
by lmm on Friday December 23, 2016 @06:53AM
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>> Baseline power is a requirement
> For what?
Modern civilization.
> Biomass.
Still carbon-based. Burning x tonnes of hydrocarbons is still burning x tonnes of hydrocarbons even if the carbon was only recently captured from the atmosphere - it's basically no different from burning coal and running a sequestration process in parallel. Carbon is fungible.
It has to do with costs, lack of space, various engineering and environmental constraints, business decisions, ...
> nuclear plants are a lot easier to build far away from people than any of the alternatives
There is no far away from people in Europe.
Even in Russia they have built their new dangerous breeder next to a large town. Keeps the engineers committed to the thing...
> Baseline power is a requirement
For what?
> carbon-based, hydro, or nuclear.
Biomass.
>There was only ever one in full-scale production, and it's now closed, AIUI. There are various experimental efforts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_thermal_power_st...