Comment on US slows plans to retire coal plants because of AI power usage

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bobtimus_prime@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Your language is rude. Please adress your point in a more formal way, without claiming that I would be yelling or bullshitting.

I still don’t see the deposition of nuclear waste as straight forward as you claim. We have accumulated waste for many decades and, so far, have establiahed only a single site. If this was new technology I would give it the benefit of the doubt, but we have decaying castors, wich will become more and more difficult to handle, as the fule rods become brittle. Just building new Reactors and think we will handle the waste eventually, is not enough to convince me.

If we had the resources to build nuclear powerplants and renewables, we should do both, but we have not. Thus, every Cent spent on nuclear is not spent on renewables which give more power per invested money.[1]

Baseload: The grids might not yet handle a widespread dunkelflaute, but they can be, and currently are, extended to shift energy from production places to the regions where they are needed. Furthermore the cost of energy storage is falling every every year[2], while the the cost of nuclear remains more or less stagnant.[3]

I agree that coal does more harm than nuclear, but as states above, we should put our effort in renewables.

[1] theguardian.com/…/nuclear-power-australia-liberal… [2] ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline [3] statista.com/…/cost-of-nuclear-electricity-produc…

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