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Re:NASA Revives Plan to Put Nuclear Reactors on Mars by batushka on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @09:24AM (#14702177)
Better windmills :D This green energy hoax barely sustains communities on earth, why would sane someone risk on Mars? Mission needs reliability - we have nuclear power sources reliably working for decades, powering bigger things than calculator.
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Re:NASA Revives Plan to Put Nuclear Reactors on Mars by knz on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @09:35AM (#14702248)
Can you explain what you mean by "green energy hoax [that] barely sustains communities on earth"?

Renewables are part of having a diverse power grid and because of the investment needed they are situated in areas with consistent/reliable wind/solar radiation.

I drive past the massive wind farms of Minnesota and he Dakota's regularly - they are almost always generating electricity. My understanding is that the US has significant potential renewable energy reserves.

Edit. Wikipedia suggests that about 14% of the US grid is currently renewables (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_the_Unit...) - that seems far from "barely sustaining".

The map of potential for wind alone suggests great potential - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wind_power_potential_ma...

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