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0 pointsncmncm3y ago0 comments

Existing peaker plants will burn synthetic ammonia or hydrogen, once there is enough spare renewable generating capacity to synthesize that. In the meantime, we build out the renewable generating capacity. Then we build out hydrogen and ammonia synthesis.

There is no place for nukes in the inner solar system. Out Jupiter and beyond, ok.

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mlyle3y ago

> In the meantime, we build out the renewable generating capacity.

We're already dipping into times of negative electric power cost in places with high renewable penetration... and a whole lot of the rest of the day where storage is needed, and a whole lot of usages that are not electric yet which will increase demand.

Yes, more renewable build out is necessary and helpful. But it won't get us low enough in carbon intensity soon enough alone.

ncmncmOP3y ago

Diverting money from renewable build-out for contraptions that will not deliver any energy at all year after year would, then, be strictly worse.

mlyle3y ago

I'm not proposing diverting money from renewable build-out. But surely we can also build a few conventional plants for nuclear base load for all the additional heating, industrial, etc, demand we'll have as things electrify... and try a prototype design or two to gain information.

It's not like there's one purely fungible pool of resources to build all things and solve all human problems.

Diversity in approaches is way better than your all-eggs-in-one-basket strategy.

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mlyle3y ago

> In the meantime, we build out the renewable generating capacity.

Yes, more renewable build out is necessary and helpful. But it won't get us low enough in carbon intensity soon enough alone.

ncmncmOP3y ago

Diverting money from renewable build-out for contraptions that will not deliver any energy at all year after year would, then, be strictly worse.

mlyle3y ago

It's not like there's one purely fungible pool of resources to build all things and solve all human problems.

Diversity in approaches is way better than your all-eggs-in-one-basket strategy.

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There is no place for nukes in the inner solar system. Out Jupiter and beyond, ok.