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partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

We certainly could. We do it already today in the USA with our nuclear weapons (which use Plutonium). Its all possible, its just expensive. So much so that it makes an expensive power source (nuclear) even more expensive. Why would we do this when solar costs 5 times less than regular civilian nuclear power?

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assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There’s no magic bullet to our problems. Solar has issues with storage and varies day to day with the weather. I’ve got no issue making it a large supply of our energy, but we’ll need generation sources for cloudy days. We can’t presume the battery storage will be full every time we need it and it’s cloudy out.

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- partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Who’s suggesting there’s a magic bullet? Certainly not me.
  
  I’ve got no issue making it a large supply of our energy, but we’ll need generation sources for cloudy days. We can’t presume the battery storage will be full every time we need it and it’s cloudy out.
  
  My argument is that nuclear isn’t it.
  
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  - assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Fair enough – what do you propose we use instead?
    
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    partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Solar PV, wind, and hydro where we can. Geothermal in the very few places we can.
    
    Combined cycle gas-turbine (CCGT) methane everywhere else.
    
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