2026-10-28 04:51 UTC
Replies (9)
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@eicker@lemmy.world 2026-10-28 04:53
Turns out the sun has a few competitive advantages over nuclear: free fuel, no radioactive waste, and it doesn’t need a decade of permits before it starts shining. The real bottleneck now is grids and storage. Imagine losing the energy race to a giant fusion reactor 93 million miles away. 😎
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@Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 2026-10-28 05:17
Approaching this problem like it has one perfect solution is pure ignorance.
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@random_character_a@lemmy.world 2026-10-28 05:39
Now we just need a cheap sustainable storage medium for all that solar power and were golden. Anyone?
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@Hegar@fedia.io 2026-10-28 05:52
Nuclear plants - with high start-up costs, national security risks and high output - will always require concentrating large amounts of power in few hands. Solar has much greater potential for decentralization. Greater inequality results in a worse society in just about every imaginable way. And nuclear will always encourage that more than solar.
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@abc@suppo.fi 2026-10-28 06:13
Solar is great but so is nuclear. They have different use cases, we need both. Easily the cheapest energy is that you have a nuclear power plant up already and you keep it running. Germany royally fucked that one up.
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@HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2026-10-28 06:41
Nuclear is like fighter jets, a relic of the profligate cheap energy 20th century.
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@arak@lemmy.today 2026-10-28 06:53
Thank you China, thank you Korea(for USA)
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@realitista@lemmus.org 2026-10-28 07:34
Solar is great for where it’s sunny. Not as great where it’s not.
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@AlSweigart@lemmy.zip 2026-10-29 03:21
We could have had this 30 years ago. There have been improvements in the tech and manufacturing, but the main reason for the price drop has been the scale of sales.