Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
by thijson on Saturday September 13, 2025 @07:25AM
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Yes, I looked into it. To store a few days worth of electricity I would need maybe 100kWh of battery storage. Right now I think battery storage costs around $100 per kWh. A whole season of electricity would be prohibitively expensive.
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Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
by pfdietz on Saturday September 13, 2025 @01:04PM
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Using batteries for long term storage is one of the classic bullshit moves of anti-renewable arguments. There are much cheaper options at scale.
Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
by realusername on Saturday September 13, 2025 @01:11PM
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Cheaper solutions which no-one bothered to implement until now. The proof is in the pudding.
Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
by pfdietz on Saturday September 13, 2025 @04:19PM
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If fossil fuels are available and cheap, unburdened by the cost of their negative externalities, of course they will be chosen instead of a more expensive CO2-free alternative. That's what killed the nuclear renaissance in the US ~15 years ago.
What this means is there's low hanging fruit to solve these problems in other ways, once fossil fuels are no longer allowed to pollute without cost. There are already good ideas for solving the long term storage problem, with many of the component technologies already existing for other purposes.