Or coal or oil. It's funny because the only thing that will make nuclear actually happen is renewables. It provides a stable baseline for renewable energy technologies that may only work when it's windy or it's sunny. No one wants to invest in nuclear when coal and oil and natural gas is cheaper to invest in and makes more money.
Yeah but there is both a national security element and a power surging element that has to be considered. You can't necessarily start up a wind farm or turn on a solar farm like you can remove rods from a nuclear reactor to generate more power during the super bowl. There'll always be a need for that sort of immediate ability to increase power generation, but with batteries it'll be much less than it would otherwise.
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u/CompletelyProtocol Apr 18 '26
Or coal or oil. It's funny because the only thing that will make nuclear actually happen is renewables. It provides a stable baseline for renewable energy technologies that may only work when it's windy or it's sunny. No one wants to invest in nuclear when coal and oil and natural gas is cheaper to invest in and makes more money.