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Re:Japan's nuclear technology faces extinction by anticodon on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @02:31AM (#14085371)
This is wishful thinking. Solar, wind and batteries has tons of unsolved problems. And I have serious doubts they will be solved in the next 15-20 years.

I hear news about new "revolutionary" batteries every months for at least 20 years. But still, every device uses the same old batteries.

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Re:Japan's nuclear technology faces extinction by llukas on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @02:48AM (#14085430)
Name some of those problems please?

Meanwhile LCOE of wind/solar is challenging that of coal power and closing to nuclear. In 15-20 years it would be way lower.

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Re:Japan's nuclear technology faces extinction by adrianN on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @03:05AM (#14085490)
Batteries suck? They are quite expensive, have low capacity and age too quickly. They are also difficult to recycle.
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Re:Japan's nuclear technology faces extinction by anticodon on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @07:13AM (#14086594)
The biggest problem is that no system can withstand such huge alternations in amounts of generated power. Solar and wind energy isn't available 24/7 and generation can't be rapidly changed to compensate for changes in consumption.
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Re:Japan's nuclear technology faces extinction by Eerie on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @03:05AM (#14085493)
>Name some of those problems please?

A windless week in the winter will leave you without power.

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