> Viable base load battery storage is science fiction.
That's a huge exaggeration. There are several solutions building commercial plants right now that should be good enough. Ambri is one example that was designed from the ground up for grid energy storage.
The other thing is that even with nuclear, if we want to solve emissions from transportation, steel production farming and fertilizers, we need to produce a HUGE amount of hydrogen. If you have hundreds or even thousands of renewable hydrogen production plants, you have all the energy regulation capability you'll ever need.
I feel like most nuclear proponents really aren't looking at the big picture. Not that I'm against nuclear btw. It'd be tragic if we didn't continue the R&D we're doing. But it's not as essential as you'd think, if you keep in mind the fact that we have to solve the energy storage problem anyway to get electricity into places where you don't have a grid connection.
I actually think the main benefit of renewables is that they stimulate even more R&D in energy storage. There's huge synergy benefits.
>That's a huge exaggeration. There are several solutions building commercial plants right now that should be good enough. Ambri is one example that was designed from the ground up for grid energy storage.
The largest such example cost $100 million and can run the state grid it's connected to for 7 minutes.
That's a huge exaggeration. There are several solutions building commercial plants right now that should be good enough. Ambri is one example that was designed from the ground up for grid energy storage.
The other thing is that even with nuclear, if we want to solve emissions from transportation, steel production farming and fertilizers, we need to produce a HUGE amount of hydrogen. If you have hundreds or even thousands of renewable hydrogen production plants, you have all the energy regulation capability you'll ever need.
I feel like most nuclear proponents really aren't looking at the big picture. Not that I'm against nuclear btw. It'd be tragic if we didn't continue the R&D we're doing. But it's not as essential as you'd think, if you keep in mind the fact that we have to solve the energy storage problem anyway to get electricity into places where you don't have a grid connection.
I actually think the main benefit of renewables is that they stimulate even more R&D in energy storage. There's huge synergy benefits.