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Which is more practical in the long run: wind/solar energy, or nuclear energy? (sh.itjust.works)
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With the ever-ongoing ‘progress’ of the proposed UK nuclear power plants, I wonder if this is the best course of action (not just in the UK, but across other nations also)?

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[–] 42 points 3 days ago (22 children)

Wind and solar. Pop up, pop down. Nuclear needs entrenched infrastructure. The future is always renewables.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (11 children)

    Ok wait what's the plan for a cold still day? You need a base load supplier like nuclear for renewables to work

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (10 children)

    You use these things called "power lines" which make it easy to send electrical energy to different places

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (7 children)

    Yes, because Checks notes we should power Great Britain with massive undersea transcontinental cables. Did I get that right?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    Yeah they're are a couple interesting HVDC lines specifically for that so that renewals can cover a wider range of sun and wind zones.

    Honestly still less infra then uranium

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  • [–] -1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    Lmao ok

    If I remember correctly, it's about 5 million US dollars per kilometer of overhead high voltage DC lines you run. I'm going to assume that putting those cables under the English channel will cost three to eight times that much being generous.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 days ago (7 children)

    Yet, it seems like there’s always this massive push in the UK to build more nuclear plants, so where (and why) does that idea come from? Is it about quick, cheap energy?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    I don't think anyone would ever describe nuclear energy as cheap nor quick

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    There is currently an absolutely massive buildout of offshore wind atm, (dogger bank a/b , Sofia, east Anglia 3, inch cape, hornsea 3) and solar to a lessor degree. Its just the right media like nuclear as a solution so its talked about more than action taken

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    China has long term planning so they were happy to give the UK cheap loan deals to build nuclear plants to create work for the Chinese nuclear industry. Then the US started doing an Iron Curtain against China, so to suck up to both the US and China the UK had to buy out all the planned Chinese-partnered nuclear plants. To avoid looking like losers UK politicians insist on trying to go through with building them without China at crippling expense while trying to pretend like it's not a disaster.

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