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chris@l.roofo.cc 5 days agoNuclear is an either or situation. Either nuclear or renewables. It makes no sense to build a nuclear plant and not run it at 100%. They are way too expensive for that. That means your energy prices will not go down even though we have incredibly cheap energy available. Nuclear is not cheap, not renewable and obtaining the nuclear material another problem on it’s own.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
No its not, how did you make up that conclusion?
Nuclear can be used to reduce the need for rather expensive storage for solar/wind energy.
You know what many places do now when solar falls short or at nighttime when the sun does not shine? They burn gas, oil, or coal.
chris@l.roofo.cc 5 days ago
Yes and that nuclear power plant is not shut down at day time. Instead renewables will be throttled if there is an overproduction. That is the either/or scenario that I mean.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
By putting a higher percentage on nuclear you reduce the need to create storage capabilities. Nuclear should ideally cover a majority of nighttime hours with the rest being handled through solar storage and wind.
Yes this will be more expensive than the current solution which is to fire up the coal plants at night, but some costs are worth it. Maybe this can be handled by battery storage, but no one has done that yet so it is hard to gage the final cost.
I care just a little more about not burning fossil fuels than the cost
chris@l.roofo.cc 5 days ago
Get lost with fossil fuels. In the time that enough nuclear is built we can build enough storage and renewables to make coal, gas and nuclear mostly obsolete.