• choroalp@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Fukushima did not a fundemantel design flaw. Its was literally next to sea. Also renewables can never replace oil if they cant even store excess energy yet lmao

    • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The plant wasn’t poorly designed, it just wasn’t designed to be where it was and nearly wiped out Tokyo as a consequence? This is an argument in favour of nuclear?

      A lot of renewables don’t need storage - including geothermal, wind, tidal, salt solar, hydro… But photovoltaics with batteries is still a fraction of the cost of nuclear, takes a fraction of the time to build, is far safer, and is orders of magnitude more relisient against demand spikes.

      …so why nuclear?