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Re:Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants by FabCH on Sunday June 21, 2026 @04:57AM (#48616980)
You can also use the same money to flood many of those empty bunkers we have with water and pump it up and down indefinitely, with no radioactive waste to get rid of and no dependency what so ever on other countries.

Solar panels on each square cm of roofs together with agrovoltaics and solar on every farm and a few more of those 2TWh hydro storage plants we have, and we are energy independent and can service a large part of our infrastructure ourselves.

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Re:Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants by Moldoteck on Sunday June 21, 2026 @10:57AM (#48619504)
No you can't. Hydro is already mostly tapped with few exceptions.

Solar requires more materials per kwh even compared to nuclear. But even if it didn't - since hydro potential isn't sufficient - gas is required for firming. This was also mentioned by axpo

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Re:Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants by FabCH on Thursday June 25, 2026 @06:38AM (#48671540)
axpo is not independent. They have an agenda.

Solar doesn’t require more materials per kWh. LCOE of solar is order of magnitude lower than Nuclear.

And we do have more mountains that we can build out.

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