The new tack is to conflate nuclear energy with fossil fuels. As in assuming that nuclear energy is “legacy” power generation, and that obviously we need to use modern gernation like solar and wind, and magical grid-level storage technologies that don’t exist. Also ignore that baseload power is still required, and is currently fulfilled with Natural Gas and Coal.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
There is absolutely nothing required about baseload power. It’s there because the economics of generating power favored it in the past. You could build a baseload plant that spits out a GW or so all day, everyday for relatively cheap.
That economic advantage is no longer there, and no longer relevant.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
Well you still need baseload. You can’t forget about it just because it’s inconvenient.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
No, you don’t. It’s entirely an accounting thing.
echodot@feddit.uk 29 minutes ago
Honestly it’s like talking to a conspiracy theorist.
What are you talking about, what’s “an accounting thing” do you even know what base load is? Go look up brownouts, actually for that matter go look up the term baseload because I don’t think you’re using it right
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
What makes power when the sun isn’t out and the wind isn’t blowing? Nuclear, gas, or coal.
By being anti-nuclear, you force it to be gas or coal.