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Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power by theodric on Monday February 22, 2021 @01:31AM (#26221482)
It also needs to be sunny 24 hours a day. Solar requires storage. Batteries are non-renewable.
Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power by epistasis on Monday February 22, 2021 @04:01PM (#26230552)
> Batteries are non-renewable.

In what sense do you mean this? As we gain a critical mass of batteries at end of life, we are now able to start recycling them:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/batteries-storage/lithiumio...

Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power by EricE on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:10PM (#26228990)
Yes, it's beyond annoying how the biggest intermittency - nighttime - is hand waved off by solar advocates.