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[–] Hugohase@startrek.website 11 points 8 months ago (90 children)

Slow, expensive, riddeled with corruption, long ago surpassed by renewables. Why should we use it?

[–] scholar@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (46 children)

Sometimes the sun doesn't shine, sometimes the wind doesn't blow. Renewables are great and cheap, but they aren't a complete solution without grid level storage that doesn't really exist yet.

[–] Hugohase@startrek.website 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Thats a chicken/egg peoblem. If enough renewables are build the storage follows. In a perfect world goverments would incentivice storage but in an imperfect one problems have to occure before somebody does something to solve them. Anyway, according to lazard renewables + storage are still cheaper than NPPs.

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