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Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies by teabee89 on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:27PM (#21020924)
Thank you for being the voice of reason <3 Small correction though on your last paragraph: nuclear is not a renewable energy, but it does not emit carbon.
Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies by ClumsyPilot on Thursday September 19, 2019 @08:11PM (#21022047)
Geothermal is not renewable either, but we say it is. There is so much Uranium, I would consider it "close enough"
Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies by ncmncm on Friday September 20, 2019 @09:14AM (#21026297)
If geothermal isn't renewable, then neither is solar. Or wind. Or hydro. Those all trace to irreversable conversion of hydrogen to helium. Geothermal comes from fission, just like nuclear.
Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies by pfdietz on Saturday September 21, 2019 @07:22AM (#21034653)
Geothermal does not come from fission. It comes from some combination of primordial heat (which is gravitational), and alpha and beta decay (not fission).
Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies by ncmncm on Sunday September 22, 2019 @11:30PM (#21045726)
I had gathered that primordial heat would have petered out billions of years ago. That the radioactive decay cited as providing long-term heat is not primarily fission is a surprise. But isn't alpha decay really a kind of fission? It's not useful for chain reactions, but that's a whole other topic.
Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies by pfdietz on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @11:20AM (#21061127)
No, alpha decay is a distinct nuclear process.