Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, new study shows

Re:Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, n... by MetaWhirledPeas on Thursday May 16, 2024 @06:11PM (#40383931)

This not a battle between nuclear and wind. Why not use both? Nuclear has dangers (which people are learning to mitigate) but wind, solar, and geothermal cannot be used in every situation. When no better choice exists we should embrace nuclear.

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Re:Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, n... by hn_throwaway_99 on Thursday May 16, 2024 @07:46PM (#40384734)

I wasn't arguing against nuclear. I was responding to the comment regarding "What's the harm in piling it up on empty land until someone finds use for it" as applying to nuclear waste.

Regarding your point, though, I'm certainly no expert but I believe at this point people aren't investing in new nuclear capacity because they don't believe that long term it will be cost competitive with renewables + storage.

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Re:Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, n... by tstrimple on Thursday May 16, 2024 @08:36PM (#40385107)

We have a profit based energy sector. Of course this is a battle between nuclear and wind. And nuclear has lost.

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