Comments by "cloudpoint" (@cloudpoint0) on "Energy price spike in Europe, coal shortage in India: Are we seeing a global energy crisis?" video.
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Renewables are not unreliable. It appears you never not kept pace with technological improvements in batteries and the many other energy storage mechanisms that have drastically fallen in price over recent years, for both short and long term storage.
Since nations are not able to adequately stock fossil fuels, that’s why fossil fuels are unreliable. I mean, where would you store cubic gigameters of an explosive gas without risking blowing apart an entire state?
Nuclear energy has restrictions to make it safe. Or are you okay with an unsafe nuclear plant operating next to where you live? Besides, new nuclear electricity costs three times what new renewable electricity costs, nuclear plants can’t follow peak loads and nuclear energy is not scalable to the needs of modern society for multiple reasons (scarcity of cooling capacity, line loss to where they can be built, long lead times to build, upfront costs, refusal by private enterprises to build without govt backing, on and on). Let’s not forget the 20 km intensity exclusion zone around them.
Polluting the environment is not too bad since most of it can be recycled when there is a need. It’s not like renewables pollute the environment more than other options. Try recycling a nuclear plant, you need to wait 80 years to take much of it apart. Plus all the pollution released building the huge concrete containment buildings for a nuclear plant. Polluting the air with CO2 is the big concern right now. Renewables surpass in the CO2 requirement.
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