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Nuclear and Fossil Fuels Join Forces to Undermine Renewables (www.bloomberg.com)

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The once unlikely alliance took root in Texas and now reaches right into the White House, where President Trump wants to ban wind energy projects.

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The thing about nuclear which drove us to large plants in the first place is that bigger reactors have significant economies of scale. Even with big reactors, nuclear has been very expensive to build, and hasn't really come down in cost in a long time, and takes a very long time to actually build.

By contrast, wind, solar, and storage are cheap and can be deployed rapidly in small increments with much more site flexibility.

So what's going on is a false promise of future nuclear being used to prevent the deployment of renewables now.

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 3 points 3 days ago

Ugh, yeah that is a frustrating part of any discussion I have with a lot of people I know IRL: they seem to think of it in an "exclusive or" (one or the other but not both) mindset.

In my most humble of opinions, we need to be doing classic nuclear, renewables, and SMRs (and as pipe-dream-ish as it might be, research into nuclear fusion) all at once. Oh, and let's not forget the mass-scale grid storage.

Would that be a hella expensive investments? Yes, but worth it in the long run.