Re:Japan's nuclear technology faces extinction
by nindalf on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:54AM
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Certainly Wind and Solar can scale to 11%. The question is about the other 89%. A significant chunk of it could be nuclear instead of coal and we would definitely be better off. And make no mistake, you need to choose between coal and nuclear because it'll be a long while before batteries have sufficient capacity to power the grid for days at a time.
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Re:Japan's nuclear technology faces extinction
by flukus on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @02:15AM
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> Certainly Wind and Solar can scale to 11%. The question is about the other 89%.
Is it still in question? If you can get to 11% then you can get to 100% with enough geographic distribution and batteries. Wind and solar are now cheaper than coal, even old unsafe nuclear never got to that point.