Re:Australia has enough solar, wind storage in pipeline to g...
by mrpopo on Friday March 22, 2019 @03:16AM
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> The main attraction of nuclear, judging by the comments I see is that "silly environmentalists don't like it". It seems the people who bring it up enjoy the thought of other people being wrong more than they enjoy being correct themselves.
Sorry, but you are the one making judgment calls and "enjoying being correct" here. I'm advocating for nuclear power, and I also understand the battle is mostly lost, so please don't act smug like this. Other than the economic case, there are massive hurdles on the way of a 100% renewables world, which I hope will be overcome, since that's obviously the way the world is going forward to now.
Re:Australia has enough solar, wind storage in pipeline to g...
by marshray on Thursday March 21, 2019 @05:11PM
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Are you kidding? Nukes are great at:
1. Producing large quantities of power
2. Continuously, for several decades
3. Hiding most of the costs until long after those responsible have become unaccountable
This was already a little sad, but now that the economic case has turned decisively against nuclear power, with things going badly for basically every nuclear project and things going better than expected for most renewables it's becoming absurd.