Comment on What do you think about the renewables vs nuclear debate?
zksmk@slrpnk.net 2 years agonuclear safety requires something very near to 0 corruption
Oh definitely, I'd never want my country to build a nuclear fission plant, due to how incompetent and corrupt both the system and mentality around doing these kind of things is around here. I'd be way too worried the thing would explode (despite all the safety measures) because somebody washed some money through the project, the funding got cut beyond safety limits or somebody simply got lazy and didn't do proper maintenance, alas. Ty, but no ty, at least for another half a century, we're not mature enough. I'm sure this applies to many poorer and smaller countries across the globe.
Fusion I'd feel safe with, but that's a dream within a dream.
Said that, I never support the ‘‘renewables are intermittent’’ point
I do wish we had better developed and more universal grid storage tech than just pumped hydro. A large/continental-sized grid is cool and all, but energy independence is still important in geopolitics unfortunately, and simply in practical terms in general too.
ex_06@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
You are right, I was thinking more about central/west europe where something like this should be easily achievable