Nuclear is the most expensive energy solution, the hardest to maintain and the worst possible outcome for human error.
Solar panels can be easily installed and will generate some power most days of the year. Wind farms produce more energy altogether but run less often. Use both with batteries and you dont care if its sunny or not. Also, power grid? Energy is made somewhere and sent elsewhere. You can do this by putting solar where, on average, it is very sunny such as a desert and wind where it us windy, such as near the beach. Then you run power cables to your cities. The whole project would costs as much as like two nuclear facilities.
Oh and nuclear takes like decades to build. You have to make Fukushima/Chernobyl before you can accidentally melt it down. That takes at least 5-10 years of investment. Or you could put the same money into solar and get energy within months…
Firstly. Desert is horrible place for solar panels. High heat makes them work poorly and sand/dust is problematic for the maintanence and cleaning them requires water, that is scarce in the desert.
Coast and offshore are good places for wind farms (alltough we dont fully know the offshore farms effect on the ecosystem and offshore is difficult to build and maintain.) But similary to most things coast is going to have its own set of problems with too high wind speeds and the likely hood of rising sea level.
That all aside im not saying we need to start building hundreds of reactors. Just dont be morons and start to lobby against them untill we have capasity to get rid of the coal, gas and oil plants that are the real and pressing problems right now.
I have no doubt that in the future with combinations of hydro, wind, solar and even to some small capasity thermal power combined with battery tech going foward we can build reliable and fully renewally powered energy grid, but in the mean time we need to lean towards nuclear power.
Moronic desitions like Germany shutting down their nuclear plants, just to notice that they did not have the capacity to replace the energy with green alternatives and then opened plants using fossil fuels to keep up with the demand were naive, stupid and played right in to foreign nations hands.
Nuclear is the most expensive energy solution, the hardest to maintain and the worst possible outcome for human error. Solar panels can be easily installed and will generate some power most days of the year. Wind farms produce more energy altogether but run less often. Use both with batteries and you dont care if its sunny or not. Also, power grid? Energy is made somewhere and sent elsewhere. You can do this by putting solar where, on average, it is very sunny such as a desert and wind where it us windy, such as near the beach. Then you run power cables to your cities. The whole project would costs as much as like two nuclear facilities. Oh and nuclear takes like decades to build. You have to make Fukushima/Chernobyl before you can accidentally melt it down. That takes at least 5-10 years of investment. Or you could put the same money into solar and get energy within months…
Firstly. Desert is horrible place for solar panels. High heat makes them work poorly and sand/dust is problematic for the maintanence and cleaning them requires water, that is scarce in the desert.
Coast and offshore are good places for wind farms (alltough we dont fully know the offshore farms effect on the ecosystem and offshore is difficult to build and maintain.) But similary to most things coast is going to have its own set of problems with too high wind speeds and the likely hood of rising sea level.
That all aside im not saying we need to start building hundreds of reactors. Just dont be morons and start to lobby against them untill we have capasity to get rid of the coal, gas and oil plants that are the real and pressing problems right now.
I have no doubt that in the future with combinations of hydro, wind, solar and even to some small capasity thermal power combined with battery tech going foward we can build reliable and fully renewally powered energy grid, but in the mean time we need to lean towards nuclear power.
Moronic desitions like Germany shutting down their nuclear plants, just to notice that they did not have the capacity to replace the energy with green alternatives and then opened plants using fossil fuels to keep up with the demand were naive, stupid and played right in to foreign nations hands.