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Re:Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas ... by kortilla on Sunday April 07, 2019 @01:15PM (#19598251)
Germany will just continue to cheat and import from France during lulls. Either that or they will just burn natural gas. Renewables (excluding dams because they aren’t supported by zealots) for base load are a complete fantasy. Pumped storage and batteries are so inefficient that we can’t switch without quintupling electricity costs for everyone.

>It'll happen eventually. Nuclear is in no position to make it happen any quicker than renewables are though.

Renewables are not competitive with nuclear for base load, at all. That’s why “environmentalists” conveniently allow the burning of coal and gas for the base load while they sit around waiting on a miracle for storage. Nuclear is a solution that works now. Hoping for storage tech 50 years from now is just stoking the fossil fuel burn.

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Re:Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas ... by peterashford on Sunday April 07, 2019 @07:01PM (#19600509)
Convenient to exclude hydro to make your argument where its what powers the existing the 100% renewable countries (either completely or nearly so).
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Re:Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas ... by godelski on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @12:15AM (#19611745)
Hydro is fantastic and we should use it wherever we can. Problem is the last part. We can't use it everywhere.
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Re:Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas ... by kortilla on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @06:45PM (#19619721)
Convenient to exclude the fact that hydro requires a specific geology and willingness to destroy river ecosystems for it to work.
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Re:Nuclear power is the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas ... by elproxy on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @09:24AM (#19624372)
Hydro is finite... When you've harnessed 80%~90% of the potential, that's about it.
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