• wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    24 hours ago

    Not them, but having read this entire thread, what contra points?

    Other than that, I haven’t seen much in this thread.

    I see a few points of how Frances configuration for cooling may not be good, but that’s not an unsolvable problem?

    At least more solvable than the energy storage problem.

    Physicist, not an engineer.

    You need baseline and demand power.

    Renewables like wind and solar are great for demand. As they provide power typically when usuage is peaking. But those power outputs drop when its needed most, so you still need baseline power.

    Nuclear power is great at baseline, but because it takes a lot to ramp power up and down, isnt great to handle peak loads.

    Notice the team up here?

    Why is it always renewables or nuclear. Both have their places.

    This solves the energy storage problems as well. Less of a need for batteries with rare earth metals that are… Finite.

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      18 hours ago

      From OG comment, contra points, formatted in a bulleted list:

      • Can’t handle oncoming increasing heatwaves
      • Regularly have major accidents. source (german)
      • in the age of wind and solar and cheap batteries it is not necessary and much cheaper to build renewables.
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        17 hours ago

        Gonna need a source on the age of cheap batteries.

        All large scale batteries are chack full of rare earth metals, which are not named for their famous availability.

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          17 hours ago

          I am just providing the contra points you did not notice earlier. I am not here to defend them.

          We could talk about the new infrastructure size sodium ion batteries which use only the most available elements. But again, i am not here to discuss, just to show you that you missed the points in the original comment.

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            17 hours ago

            I mean sure.

            But I’ll also point out the comment wasn’t there wasn’t any reason, but a logically sound one.

            Hence why I said its not logically sound to say era of cheap battery storage, because thats not our current reality.

            So sure, there’s other points, but none worth discussing?