Re:Power Prices Go Negative in Germany
by YawningAngel on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @05:47AM
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Will we? Seems like we could use fission plants just fine if we wanted to.
Two issues with that:
1) We still haven't solved the nuclear waste disposal issue.
2) Even if fears around #1 are overblown, "if we wanted to" is the rub: there's very little political or public will to move any meaningful amount of energy production to nuclear, and in some places in the world, countries are actually retiring nuclear plants as the age and replacing them with something else.
But that doesn't change the fact that if we don't transition to renewable energy, we will wreck the planet, at least wrt humans surviving on it. The cost doesn't really matter when you consider that aspect.