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[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Complaining about down votes is some small dick reddit energy, don't do that in the future. We are on Lemmy now.

Now to answer your question. "Renewables*" are supplementary. Wind/Solar cannot provide baseline power, and will never be able to provide baseline power for the grid. Any kind of magical energy storage you can come up with that would allow renewables to replace a power plant also requires exotic/expensive tech that would be more expensive then Nuclear power and still doesn't address baseline power consumption. This kind of question is also used as a distraction by the fossil fuel industry so that you have countries like Germany replacing nuclear power with coal and strip mining.

Why are they building coal in the first place? Because "renewables" do not produce enough base-line power. If Germany could use magically renewable energy to meet all of their energy demands, they would probably do it, but that isn't the reality. In the future try to avoid framing solar/wind as competitors to nuclear power. Both are needed, and unlike nuclear power which hasn't been built on any scale since the 70's, solar/wind are absolutely used everywhere they can be and if they aren't sufficient in cases like Georgia, Nuclear should 100% be the answer because if it's not used you will have coal or gas instead. "Just asking questions" like that shows you don't understand power-generation and you have fallen for the fossil fuel industries propaganda.

[-] jackham8@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Excellent rundown. The baseline power supplier for when there's no wind or sun can either be natural gas or nuclear, and nuclear produces far less harmful byproducts.

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