Comment on We can do all three things at once
LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s just not going to happen, it’s way too slow to become profitable. There are plenty of nuclear power plants in production that have been in production for 40 years that still aren’t profitable.
Storage is going to have to be the thing that makes up for the instability of solar and wind, whether it be in the form of heat storage, hydrogen production, fly wheels, or some breakthrough in Battery Tech.
I’d like to note it’s not profitable because it generates so much energy so consistently that it’s hard to keep prices up.
That’s why nuclear energy should never have been a private sector investment but a government one, or maybe hybrid. That’s how it’s worked in Finland, and the new reactor we had built plus the growing solar really saved us from the electricity spike after Russian gas was turned off.
pump storage hydroelectricity is the only storage we need.
They should just start selling merch to fans to be profitable. Nuclear hoodie? Yes please /j
mac@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Energy shouldn’t be a business, it’s a necessity at this point.
LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It shouldn’t be, but I don’t live in Fairy Tail and I live in the real world. And as sad as it is the fact of the matter is if it’s not profitable it’s not happening. At least not in the US, so unless the population finally chooses the band together tear down the current structure and basically change overnight I have to ask for realistic possible solutions
Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Even if we lived in fairy tale land, companies would find a way to capitalize on mana and magic
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 5 months ago
And? I don’t live in the USA and neither does most of the world. They aren’t the biggest nation even.
LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The US is the worst offending nation but many others will fail for the same reason. Was just heading off the “but this one small place with specific economics did it” comments
capital@lemmy.world 5 months ago
How much profit resulted from roads?
LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 5 months ago
An almost immeasurable amount? It’s how goods are transported, enables a vastly larger pool of workers, and is a continuous source of work for an entire sector