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Re:Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhou... by adrianN on Friday October 01, 2021 @03:37AM (#28715708)
We have the technology to store wind and solar: batteries for very short durations, electrolysis (optionally followed by a Sabatier reaction to make Methane) for longer duration. Both are quite expensive, but so is nuclear. I don't know which option is cheaper overall.
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Re:Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhou... by MagnumOpus on Friday October 01, 2021 @04:35AM (#28716016)
Nuclear is massively cheaper as long as you build it in scale 20 reactors at a time, like France did in the 1970s or China has been doing for the last decade.

The capital cost of any battery, flywheel or pumped storage is higher than the $30-50/MWh energy of a nuclear plant, without even having built any PV or wind generation.

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