Some key insights from the article:

Basically, what they did was to look at how much batteries would be needed in a given area to provide constant power supply at least 97% of the time, and the calculate the costs of that solar+battery setup compared to coal and nuclear.

  • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    To tack onto that: https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source

    When you account for land use in the entire life cycle from mining resources to disposal at end of life cycle, nuclear uses a quarter of the land of rooftop cadmium panels and a tenth of silicon panels.

    Offshore wind is the only thing that gets close and even that has ecological and commercial concerns.

    If you’re pro-stable and sustainable ecological systems, nuclear based power grid is a no brainer.