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Re:Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental E... by wyager on Friday April 21, 2023 @04:27PM (#35659607)
If you have solar on every domestic rooftop, that also doesn't actually let you address realistic power consumption patterns.

If we're talking about not-yet-extant technology that would allow solar to meet 24/7 demand at grid scale (like power storage that costs 1% as much as it does now), we might as well be talking about small-scale-fusion power, which is also resistant to being bombed and is generally better than solar+batteries for other reasons.

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Re:Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental E... by haweemwho on Friday April 21, 2023 @04:53PM (#35659939)
No? How many ovens, washing machines and dryers usually run at 2am when it's dark?

Sure people don't charge their Tesla at noon when solar production peaks, but saving that until the evening when the 15 miles use of the car battery need to refill is not a significant engineering challenge. Running a nuclear power plant is magnitudes harder.

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