Nuclear energy is clean

Re:Nuclear energy is clean by not_a_pet_rock on Monday August 01, 2022 @04:42AM (#32303482)

wind does not always blow nor can you always deploy a turbine and you clearly don't understand the ridiculous amount of space taken by the windmills to actually over provision.

Technically if you were to over provision, yes that would work, but the problem is more that you cant even do it because of multiple different reasons. It's easier to understand when you realize that we don't have more hydro because most of the good places already have a damn. The best place for mills is currently in Denmark where they are being deployed at sea, thats not most places.

Nuclear is the way to go for base power and the voltage adjustments can be done with windmills, solar and as a last resort with a coal/gas plant.

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Re:Nuclear energy is clean by onethought on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @06:45AM (#32329978)

Australia + Saudi Arabia + Utah each have enough empty land to easily provision the worlds energy requirements in solar alone. The sun is always shining on at least one of them (maybe the pacific is a bit too big, but we are talking only a couple of hours).

Denmark is not the only place the wind blows in the world. There are many windy places globally.

But I agree nuclear is another option, but it’s not the only way

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Re:Nuclear energy is clean by ncmncm on Monday August 01, 2022 @06:19AM (#32304007)

You can trot out these falsehoods as often as you like, but you will always be called on it.

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