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Re:Nuclear energy is long-term sustainable by bryanlarsen on Friday November 12, 2021 @11:48AM (#29201389)
Location doesn't make as much difference as you would think. Arizona gets about 3 times as much sun as Boston does, but a cloudy day in Arizona isn't significantly different than a cloudy day in Boston. And if you size your solar to support cloudy days...

And yes, solar farms are bigger than nuclear plants. That might be a problem in Singapore, but a few hundred square miles of solar farms is not a big deal in a country with 3.5 million square miles.

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Re:Nuclear energy is long-term sustainable by p_l on Friday November 12, 2021 @11:54AM (#29201508)
So it can provide piddling amounts of power given very favourable conditions.

Now consider that Boston is on similar distance from North pole as Spain, and not everywhere has huge swaths of unused land conveniently stripped of natives.

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