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Re:Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy by VHRanger on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:03AM (#30163368)
Base load

Base load

Base load

Any green energy plan that dismisses nuclear without addressing base load issues with a concrete plan (no future tech that doesn't exist yet) is profoundly unserious

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Re:Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy by raxxorrax on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:14AM (#30163546)
It is important to mix your energy, but it is an insufficient argument.

https://www.nrdc.org/experts/kevin-steinberger/debunking-thr...

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Re:Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy by pfdietz on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @03:18PM (#30168608)
The technology for addressing baseload exists: renewables, batteries, and long term chemical storage (like hydrogen). All these exist, it's just a matter of pushing the costs down via deployment and experience.

If you object to these because they are not scaled out, I will point out that a nuclear powered world will also need new tech of that kind: either seawater uranium extraction on a massive scale, or a breeder-based fuel cycle. Existing burner reactors would, if they powered the entire world, exhaust available uranium resources in just a few years.

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