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Old nuclear (i.e. all existing plants) are not good because they are so expensive that no one will take the financial risk to build one without billions of loan guarantees from the government and those programs have closed down (all current plants built prior to the 80s were financed with them).
However there are cheaper and safer reactor designs available today that could allow more nuclear power to make a comeback as a realistic option in a clean energy future.
We don’t yet have an economical way to store the vast quantities of electricity needed to power whole regions when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing.
Nuclear is still cheaper than wind and solar. Look at electricity rates in Germany as proof.
Well, there are other alternatives, unfortunately they are withheld from the public (thats a BIG problem). IF people dont even know they exist, how can they be factored into a solution?
Pumped-storage hydro is a proven way to store large quantities of energy to even out electricity supply when using wind and solar, the technology has been around for decades.
Old nuclear (i.e. all existing plants) are not good because they are so expensive that no one will take the financial risk to build one without billions of loan guarantees from the government and those programs have closed down (all current plants built prior to the 80s were financed with them).
France solved that problem. If they did it other countries can do it too.
Pumped-storage hydro is a proven way to store large quantities of energy to even out electricity supply when using wind and solar, the technology has been around for decades.
Yes, but it would take thousands of pumped storage facilities to provide enough electricity for the contiguous USA for a week of cloudy weather with low wind.
Pumped-storage hydro is a proven way to store large quantities of energy to even out electricity supply when using wind and solar, the technology has been around for decades.
But the solar still creates more CO2 than nuclear. That's the point of this thread.
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