sparkyshocks comments on Solar Panels Are Now Producing So Much Power That They’re Leaving Nuclear Plants in the Dust: "Solar is now the engine of the power transition."

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[–] sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip 3 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

New nuclear plants take like 10 years to build, and need to plan out a 50+ year useful life in order to be worth the up-front construction costs.

I wonder what the state of energy production in 2075 will be, where a nuclear power plant designed in 2025 and completed in 2035 will still have 10 years in order to break even on cost, competing with whatever the state of the art is on generation in 2075. Fusion? Widespread solar+wind+geothermal+batteries? Something we haven't even dreamed of?

That's why I'm skeptical of nuclear fission these days. It locks us in too long.

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[–] paranoia@feddit.dk 5 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I'm all in on solar for most places.

Sure it uses a bit more land, but it makes no noise, no pollution, there's zero risk of an accident, no targets for terrorism and your grid isn't completely shut down if it is somehow turned offline.

You don't depend on others for your own resilience. No need for oil, gas or uranium.

Unless you live in the high northern latitudes, there is almost no reason to not be building a durable and resilient battery-renewable grid

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[–] gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 1 point 1 hour ago

btw the reason why denmark and germany are building so many wind turbines is mostly because they're so far north.

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[–] ElChinchilla@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Solar should be in every parking lot and the median of every highway as the baseline, already space we've developed and can (more) easily add to.

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