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Re:Nuclear energy is a vital part of solving the climate crisis by readams on Friday November 08, 2019 @03:49PM (#21486567)
You also need to consider that solar/wind+battery needs to be massively overbuilt to get reliable power because of the variability, both day to day and seasonal. More sophisticated analysis needs to recognize that as your percentage of power from solar/wind approaches 100%, the amount of overbuilding required rises very rapidly.

See e.g. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611683/the-25-trillion-re...

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Re:Nuclear energy is a vital part of solving the climate crisis by labawi on Monday November 11, 2019 @10:29AM (#21505578)
Only if you do it as proposed in the battery-centered article.
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