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Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future by Melatonic on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @03:21PM (#31758039)
I think the thing I never hear people talk about however is redundancy and consistency. Wind and Solar are great and likely should be a huge huge portion of our power production. Something like Nuclear though we can project huge consistency (assuming the plant does not get destroyed by a giant natural disaster) long term and day to day.

Personally though I really have always liked Geothermal!

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Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future by ncmncm on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @03:56PM (#31758575)
Nukes and geothermal both depend on steam turbines, which are down for very expensive maintenance 10-20% of the time. That is why those can't compete with 0% opex renewables + storage.

Nukes, of course, have lots of other opex on top of the turbines, and also crippling capex.

Geothermal might be able to compete at very high latitudes where the alternative is shipping in synthetic ammonia from the tropics when wind flags and transmission lines don't deliver.

But steam turbine s are absolutely not getting any cheaper or more reliable.

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