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Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future by pfdietz on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @12:23PM (#31755346)
They'll build more factories to make the renewable equipment. What, you think there's some inherent limit on the number of factories that can be built?
Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future by xienze on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @12:56PM (#31755834)
> What, you think there's some inherent limit on the number of factories that can be built?

No, but there are limits on the amount of raw materials that said factories can use to produce equipment.

Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future by pfdietz on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @01:07PM (#31755995)
Which raw material are you talking about? Be specific.

I believe a global renewable energy system can be constructed using only elements available in essentially unlimited amounts, and using those elements at a modest scale compared to industrial society as a whole.

Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future by xienze on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @04:12PM (#31758796)
> Which raw material are you talking about? Be specific.

Uh Lithium?

Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future by ncmncm on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @04:35PM (#31759112)
Batteries will be only a negligible fraction of utility storage, and a negligible fraction of those will be lithium. Lithium is the most expensive storage.

Utilities will choose the cheaper among many alternatives, not the most expensive; the which is why they are not building nukes.

Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future by epistasis on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @08:20PM (#31761127)
The lithium is there, it just needs capital investment.

Ironically ESG has guided capital away from extractive industries like this.

It's not a physical limitation, it's a timing of scaling limitation, and we haven't hit it in a hard way yet. Plenty of new lithium resources, and more being discovered all the time.

Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future by pfdietz on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @04:18PM (#31758886)
It's as if you think Li-ion batteries are the only kind that can exist.

This is a generic problem with anti-renewable arguments: they argue against specific technologies rather than the entire class of possible technologies.

(And then they go and posit all sorts of as-yet unbuilt reactor types, blithely ignoring the irony.)