Re:Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe?
by natch on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @11:54AM
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Big government, big industry, crony capitalism, corruption, political control of an essential resource, politics generally, secrecy, coverups, payoffs, concentration of power, etc. etc. which you would not get or to a much lesser extent (verging on negligible relative to nuclear) with some alternative energy sources like solar.
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Re:Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe?
by korantu on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @08:49PM
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Solar and wind are fine for residential, which is 13% of global consumption.
Transportation and industry, with their 75% , would need some clean source of energy, for which calm nights are not a problem, crony capitalism or not.
Re:Ask HN: What can be done to prevent a climate catastrophe?
by natch on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @11:00PM
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Yes, you need some source of clean energy for which calm nights are not a problem.
If only batteries were getting really good... oh, they are. Batteries are not a source, but coupled with a source, your calm night problem is mostly taken care of. And batteries+renewable sources don't need to be 100% of the solution in order for them to effectively wipe out the value proposition of nuclear power in most situations. Yes, you can find exceptions, I'm sure.