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Re:Nuclear's role in a net-zero world by Retric on Sunday March 24, 2024 @09:41PM (#39812203)
“Wind and geothermal are more space efficient than nuclear”

I never argued that nuclear always lost to solar, I even suggested it should be able to use less land than your examples.

I am arguing it never beats wind.

Re:Nuclear's role in a net-zero world by stavros on Sunday March 24, 2024 @09:49PM (#39812221)
From the data I can see (e.g. https://www.ourworldofenergy.com/vignettes.php?type=wind-pow...), wind needs at least 30,000 acres per GW, a far cry from the nuclear 1,000 acres for 7 GW above.
Re:Nuclear's role in a net-zero world by Retric on Sunday March 24, 2024 @09:51PM (#39812234)
You’re looking at the distance between turbines as if that land was useless for anything else. It’s not.

Put a turbine in the on a 10,000 acre farm and you’ll still have a 9,999 acre farm. Put a nuclear reactor on that same land and you’ll be doing a lot less farming.