Comment on nuclear fear-mongering is a ploy by Big oil

• Forester@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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  • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨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).

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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…

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      • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        OP calling you a “dipshit” and others “fucking shills” is clear evidence OP knows he/she is losing the argument and gets emotional about it.

        What’s funny is that nuclear apologists sweep other renewables like geothermal under the rug and only proclaim that wind and solar depend on the elements. Wind and solar do but others like geothermal don’t. Hydropower is also less dependent on flukes of nature.

        Also France needs to lower their nuclear energy output in summer because the cooling water from rivers gets too hot.

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      • Forester@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s not my argument. Dipshit.

        My argument is that it has taken us 30 years to reach 16% of global power generated by renewables. And every year we seem to add about two more percentage to that. We don’t have the fucking time scale to keep that rate going. We need to drastically cut oil yesterday and the only thing you can vially replace that much oil with is nuclear on a 5-year time scale.

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    • Forester@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Please tell me your plans for renewable storage to meet 84% of our power needs in the next 5 years

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      • msage@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Please remind me how long it takes to build new nuclear plants?

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