Re:Engineers can disrupt climate change
by Manuel_D on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:09PM
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> "Just build nuclear" - As per the post itself, we need to build 3 nuclear plants every day until 2050 to replace the entire grid with nuclear. Yeah not realistic.
France averaged building one nuclear power plant every 100 days during the Messemer plan. Far from 3 per day, but France only makes up slightly less than 1% of the population. Similarly, in the US if we built nuclear plants at the same rate as we did during the 1970s we would have 100% nuclear and hydroelectric electricity generation on that timeframe. There is historical precedence for this pace of nuclear plant construction.
As far as the alternatives, it's the most viable approach, short of a miraculous breakthrough in storage technology, fusion, or similar.
France averaged building one nuclear power plant every 100 days during the Messemer plan. Far from 3 per day, but France only makes up slightly less than 1% of the population. Similarly, in the US if we built nuclear plants at the same rate as we did during the 1970s we would have 100% nuclear and hydroelectric electricity generation on that timeframe. There is historical precedence for this pace of nuclear plant construction.
As far as the alternatives, it's the most viable approach, short of a miraculous breakthrough in storage technology, fusion, or similar.