Re:Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear react...
by kortilla on Monday December 02, 2019 @12:56PM
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No it wouldn’t. It’s not a money problem, it’s a tech problem. You can pour 50 billion into storage and it won’t make a dent in the base load.
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Re:Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear react...
by nicoburns on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @10:18AM
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50 billion would fund a lot of R&D into energy storage (I'm guessing that's probably more than the total amount that's even been spent on such research to date). And it's not like it's a crazy unsolvable problem. There are lot's of promising avenues that just need to be developed, and not even that much. Our current tech isn't that far off being able to support what we need.