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• @LewdLemon@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-18 05:51

  Praising nuclear and deploring the cost of wind? That’s funny, considering the still-unsolved problem of securely storing nuclear waste for thousands of years. It’s almost like we have left the factor with the largest potential cost out of our calculation…

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• @BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 2026-10-18 07:27

  Nuclear is still the most expensive power source, while wind turbines are one of the cheapest per MWH produced. Half a decade ago I was fully pro nuclear, but battery technology have developed to a point we’re almost capable of using it as a base loader; There’s an added power grid capacity requirement for battery farm baseloading, but there’s ideas of how to solve this. By having batteries sitting locally at the largest power generating sites, with a switch to determine whether batteries should be filled or power should be pushed to the grid

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