• arrow74@lemmy.zip
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      3 months ago

      If we didn’t fight Nuclear energy for decades we wouldn’t have been in half as much trouble as we are in now. But the oil companies won with their smear campaigns.

      Renewable energy is cheaper now, but that wasn’t always the case. Also nuclear can be part of solving some of the issues with renewable energy. We can build massive battery banks and double our number of solar farms so that we have power when the sun goes down or we can reduce the need and incorporate nuclear

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        3 months ago

        If we had a stable and international network, there would be not a time without sun or wind.

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          3 months ago

          Building out capacity to transport a massive amount of energy over thousands of kilometers isn’t really that great either. Also, when it comes to night this is kinda not possible to avoid

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            3 months ago

            You realise that the sun never goes away right? Half of the earth is illuminated 24/7

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              3 months ago

              But half the earth is in darkness at once? You want to really transport solar energy across half the earth at mass?

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                3 months ago

                I mean we do transport phone and internet signal all a roundthen world via big cables under the ocean already. That’s non an impossible challenge.