Re:All Applications for Nuclear Energy at COP26 Rejected
by apendleton on Sunday October 31, 2021 @05:03AM
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Yes, this is energy storage, but a big tank to put salt in has the potential to be considerably cheaper than lithium ion cells.
To your second point: all technologies have the property that we can't know for sure if they'll deliver on their promises without trying them, and the very reason we don't know in the case of nuclear is because opponents of nuclear power undermine attempts to try out novel architectures, pointing to limitations in current technologies as justification.
As a side note, every time someone points out the shortcomings of nuclear power plants (not easily adjustable, huge investment costs/expensive, storage ...) there's the replies about, "but those new future plants that we are researching will solve all this". We don't know if reality will actually deliver on those promises (nuclear has quite a history of broken promises), especially if we are talking about acting fast.