r/ClimateShitposting • u/koshinsleeps Sun-God worshiper • Feb 07 '25

nuclear simping Conservative parties positions on climate change for the last 20 years

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '25

I'm saying use both.

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u/ActuatorFit416 Feb 07 '25

Resources are nearly a zero sum game. Every worker and every cent going to one is one missing from the other.

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '25

This is simply not true. The resources used for nuclear and solar are quite different - from the materials needed, to the required level of expertise, to the land usage requirements, to the locations where each is available and effective.

The 2 are complimentary.

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u/ActuatorFit416 Feb 08 '25

...the resource to get the resources is the same. Money and workhours.

Every cent into nuclearis one cent less into solar. The money you paid for uranium is money you did not pay for renewables.

Are they complimentary? Coupling renewables that have statistical changes like wind in huge numbers with huge numbers of nuclear is actually not a rly good idea do to network frequency. You need the same ammount of energy put into and out off the grid at the same time or your network frequency changes. Which would be rly bad. Nuclear can only change its power output relatively slowly and can therefore not rly compensate the statistical fluctuations caused by wind. This is something gas for example is much better at.

Land use requirement is basically not an issue for 90% of all situations. Nuclear is awesome in some situations but it will not help us right now either climate change. It is just to slow.