Germany aims to get 100% of energy from renewable sources by 2035

Re:Germany aims to get 100% of energy from renewable sources... by raverbashing on Monday February 28, 2022 @10:50AM (#30501177)

For real. If the airline industry had behaved like the nuclear industry we wouldn't be flying planes today

Also, in typical governmental fashion (see: rocket building before SpaceX) power plants were optimized for (size???) instead of safety, cost and time to build.

Things you don't have to optimize for: efficiency

Make it fast to build and in self-contained modules (economies of scale). Make it failsafe (even if it costs efficiency)

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Re:Germany aims to get 100% of energy from renewable sources... by VaxWithSex on Monday February 28, 2022 @11:05AM (#30501391)

There is not a single one of these "small modular self contained" reactors commerically available or producing power for the grid.

These are called "blueprint reactors", because designing a nuclear reactor is easy, but building one is hard.

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Re:Germany aims to get 100% of energy from renewable sources... by raverbashing on Monday February 28, 2022 @11:43AM (#30501888)

> There is not a single one of these "small modular self contained" reactors commerically available

They exist in nuclear subs. There needs to be investment and research to make them commercially viable.

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Re:Germany aims to get 100% of energy from renewable sources... by layer8 on Monday February 28, 2022 @12:22PM (#30502351)

> There needs to be investment and research to make them commercially viable.

That means that it’s not a near-term solution, and also may turn out to not be viable at all.

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