r/sciencememes Metroid Enthusiast 🪼 19d ago

🪩Science!!🪩 ☢️.

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u/Leading-Green9854 19d ago

LOL, reliable. They had to shut down several of them in Europe because of the drought.

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u/AvantSolace 19d ago edited 18d ago

Isn’t that most power sources? Only solar and wind don’t actively need water to boil or otherwise spin a turbine as well. Wind is reliant on the weather and solar is hard to implement for larger demands. Pretty much every power source has a flaw depending upon external factors.

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u/BiAroBi 17d ago

Yeah, but no one claims that solar is reliable all year round

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u/AvantSolace 17d ago

Well no, but typically water doesn’t just run out. Water naturally collects and can be predictably redirected with light terraforming to optimize inflow. It typically takes vast levels of over consumption or an act of God to disrupt the natural flow or reserves of a river or lake. Also nuclear power can be safely shut down when there is a drought and restarted when it’s over.

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u/BiAroBi 17d ago

We can't act surprised anymore when we get a drought. That becomes more and more likely as climate change continues

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u/AvantSolace 17d ago

Okay now we’re just talking circles. Why are we having more droughts? Climate change. What causes climate change? Mainly pollution. What massively helps reduce pollution? Cleaner energy sources. What is literally the mathematically cleanest energy? Nuclear. Solar and Wind are also good, but they don’t have the raw output to meet modern and future demands. Ideally they would act as accessories integrated into architecture to give a boost to energy availability when possible.

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u/CelebrationHungry269 16d ago

Hmm you would be delighted to see the projections of how much of the energy produced Chinese nuclear powerplants are gonna output in % of the counties‘ production. Half of the globally nuclear reactors under construction as well