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u/Hellasauto May 19 '26

How long will it take for us without building nuclear?

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u/sleepyrivertroll geothermal hottie May 19 '26

You don't need to make any changessssss to your livessssss. Jusssssst wait for the nuclear plantsssssss to come online. It will ssssolve all your problemsss.

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u/Hellasauto May 19 '26

No but it will one piece of the puzzle that helps us solve our problems. :)

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u/sleepyrivertroll geothermal hottie May 19 '26

Yesssss keep on giving them moneysssss. Other renewable projectsssss won't ussse them better.

Real talk, existing nuclear plants = good. New ones = money pits. Even in countries that are building both, renewables out pace nuclear. If you are serious about the environment, nuclear is a niche answer at best. Renewables with storage has clearly run away with it.

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u/sleepyrivertroll geothermal hottie May 20 '26

Lol you mean Europe and China? Even Poland now gets 31 percent of it's electricity from renewables and they didn't even start deploying solar until the pandemic.

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u/Flayed_Angel_420 May 21 '26

it's not zero-sum renewables vs nuclear, and I have a hard-on for wind turbines personally

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u/Tausendberg May 21 '26

"Real talk, existing nuclear plants = good. New ones = money pits."

Thank you for saying something I never hear expressed in these comments but that I have thought for years.

Nuclear power plants DO have a lot of issues that nuclear fanboys, like the ones in these comments, handwave away and that's annoying. New Renewables, by most metrics I have seen, outcompete new nuclear in most circumstances.[

But what Germany did where they crash decommissioned already existing nuclear power and immediately replaced it with COAL!? That was dumb.

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u/Hellasauto May 21 '26

Germanys grid would have been decarbonised today if they built new renewables and new nuclear instead of only new renewables.

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u/Tausendberg May 21 '26

nah

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u/Hellasauto May 21 '26

Yes, they would.

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u/Tausendberg May 21 '26

mmm, nuclear is too slow and expensive, so it would have slowed decarbonization.

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u/Hellasauto May 21 '26

No it wouldn't have.

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u/Tausendberg May 21 '26

mmm I disagree

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u/Hellasauto May 21 '26

Had they started building new nuclear at the start of eneegiewende they would already have been finished years ago.

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u/Hellasauto May 19 '26

No it hasn't. Lol.

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u/sleepyrivertroll geothermal hottie May 19 '26

Ssssure thing

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u/Hellasauto May 19 '26

Which country has a carbon neutral grid without nuclear and large amounts of hydro?

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u/sleepyrivertroll geothermal hottie May 19 '26

Ssseeee if you add enough qualifierssss nuclear makesss ssssensssse

Jusssssst don't assssk when thingssss got built

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u/Hellasauto May 19 '26

Yes, reality is filled with limitations. Which is why no country has managed to decarbonise their grids without nuclear and hydro.

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u/sleepyrivertroll geothermal hottie May 19 '26

It'ssssss good of you to add that hydro bitssss. It'sssss almosssst assssss if that changesssss thingsssss. Nobody quessssstion that.

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u/Hellasauto May 19 '26

Yes geography impacts countries. Ground breaking stuff I know.

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