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Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power by vlovich123 on Sunday February 21, 2021 @11:32AM (#26214738)
My (perhaps erroneous) understanding nuclear is the only power source that can generate the power/heat that many very heavy industrial use cases need can’t be supplanted with renewables, no matter how inexpensive/efficient they are.

That’s why countries like France have significantly lower coal usage whereas Germany has higher, even though both have similar levels of renewables.

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Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power by pfdietz on Sunday February 21, 2021 @01:31PM (#26215810)
That's obviously not true, since electricity can always be converted to heat.
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Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power by toomuchtodo on Sunday February 21, 2021 @01:38PM (#26215889)
In many ways. Resistive, heat pumps, and electrolysis of hydrogen or production of ammonia to be burned.
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