• pizzaiolo@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    The two are compared because money is not infinite and there’s an opportunity cost to picking either one

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      1 year ago

      It’s Dubai we’re talking about here, money is infinite as far as they’re concerned. The alternative to nuclear for a baseline will always be fossil fuels until we can store the surplus of renewables efficiently, which is arguably further away than SMRs.

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        1 year ago

        There has been some cool innovation in renewable energy storage such as pairing it with hydro and pumping water back up using access electricity during peak production.

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          1 year ago

          I love these fiction land scenarios that magically change the landscape.

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          The innovation is there but it’s not viable yet for a country, or even city wide grid. Hydro is okay but severely limited by geography, rocks up a mountain could work too but it’s also limited by geography to some extent.