Comment on nuclear fear-mongering is a ploy by Big oil
Forester@yiffit.net 2 months ago. Do me a favor and look at the big chart that is the top comment in the comet thread and see how much of our energy needs are currently met by oil, coal and natural gas and see that 16% of our energy needs are met by a combination of all renewables. While I agree that we do need to continue investing more in renewables. There is only so much sunshine in a day and it isn’t sunny everyday and it isn’t sunny everywhere. We do not have the transmission technology to pipe electricity across continents feasibly. There’s certainly enough Sunshine at the equator. Good luck getting it beyond 30° north or south. The other issue is storage pumped. Hydro isn’t an option in most places because there isn’t enough water or natural reservoirs available to fill. So please elaborate on your battery storage solution for your solar mega farms and how you’re going to distribute that energy feasibly worldwide.
kbin_space_program@kbin.run 2 months ago
If Germany can have viable solar energy generation, and they do, then everywhere can
Forester@yiffit.net 2 months ago
I’m not saying Germany can’t produce solar energy. I’m saying Germany can’t run on nothing but solar energy which is why we need something dependable to take up the base load. That is not fossil fuel based.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 months ago
If you Google “is a nuclear baseload required” you’ll find plenty of articles clearly demonstrating why this isn’t true. Renewables + storage solutions can provide the base load just fine. The biggest issues have been worked out already, it just needs to be built (which is expensive, but so would nuclear be).
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, OP keeps using the lack of current investment in renewables as an argument that it can’t be done at scale. It’s a really weird lack of logic whether they’re aware of it and arguing in bad faith or just fundamentally confused…
Forester@yiffit.net 2 months ago
Please tell me your plans for renewable storage to meet 84% of our power needs in the next 5 years