Diplomjodler

That doesn’t look safe at all.

True. I’m just a figment of your imagination.

This is fucking dumb. None of that has any basis in reality.

This is Switzerland, not India. Also, it’s a test. It’s designed to find out exactly how serious those problems are and if they prevent the system from being effective.

It would turn into a disaster without sanctions too. Investing in “civilian” nuclear power is at best a giant grift and at worst a smokescreen to cover for development of nuclear weapons.

Current solar panels are about 25% efficient, so 1000 times that would be 25.000%. I think Mr. Boltzmann and Mr. Maxwell might have some objections here.

Pretty cool. If they really manage to build a 8.5 GWh battery system economically and reliably that would be a huge step forward.

100A? That’s going to need some thick cables.

A nuclear plant can be built in like 5 years.

Can you point to any nuclear plant in a Western country that was built in five years in the past thirty years or so?

And the supply chain is not the issue when you have lots of orders.

Seriously? Building reactor vessels is a very specialized task that only few suppliers are even capable of. Add to that uranium mining, fuel rod production, fuel logistics and a host of other components - and all that will just fall from the sky once enough orders are signed?

On the other hand many countries don’t have areas that have enough sun and consistent wind.

Germany is already at over 50%, many other countries are far ahead of that. Your point has no factual basis.

Id also say that the part you said that cost of renewables combined with storage would be a fraction of the cost, that is completely false.

Here’s a source

Most of those were very old. I’m glad we’re not the ones who will find out how long you can really run one if those things before it fails.

Even if we started to build nuclear plants like crazy right now, it would be decades for them to make a real impact. Building a single nuclear plant is very expensive and time consuming. Building up the necessary supply chain to build a lot of them would take much longer. In the meantime, you can build huge amounts of renewables in just a few years for a fraction of the cost, even if you factor in storage.

20,000% efficient? Cool. Mr. Boltzmann and Mr. Einstein may want to have a word, though.

The waste problem, which is usually handwaved away, is not just not solved, but there’s no solution in sight in any place but Finland. And even there the delays keep piling up.

Nuclear reactors depend on uranium mining. Uranium is a finite resource and mining it is particularly dirty business. All the technologies that are touted for creating a sustainable fuel cycle either aren’t commercially viable or don’t exist at all like Thorium.

Then there’s the commercial angle. All current nuclear projects in Western countries are wildly over budget and face huge delays. At the same time renewables are getting ever cheaper. Any nuclear reactor built today will never be profitable.

Finally there’s proliferation. Countries like Pakistan, Iran or North Korea having nukes is enough to give anyone nightmares. The more nuclear reactors there are, the more difficult it becomes to keep track of the stuff. How many more North Koreas do we want?

This is just a quick top of my head summary. There’s so much more.

Not by people who actually know what they’re talking about.

Renewables, of course.

They’ll do just anything to avoid implementing the obvious and proven solution.

There’s a long list in the pinned post at the top of this sub.

Lawns were grown to demonstrate social status by having land that was not needed for food production to fulfil one’s immediate needs.

It worked on every other continent. Of course it would be harder to do in the US because they’ve neglected building out their railways for so long. But the Chinese built a high speed rail network in a few years. There’s no practical reason why the US wouldn’t be able to do it.

There are plenty of applications where batteries simply won’t be sufficient, so synthetic fuels do have a place. Just not in land based transport.