Comments by "n" (@user-pq4by2rq9y) on "Is Nuclear Energy Green?" video.

  1. There is one thing that bothers me about energy from renewables (specifically solar and wind), while it can be cheap, that might be for the wrong reasons. What happens is that because you can't produce and sell on demand, you are forced to sell your peak production at cheaper prices, driving down your profit margin substantially after a certain point. And, of course, there is not much you can do about peak demand without energy storage anyway, which could improve or destroy the economic viability of renewables altogether, despite never being accounted for, as far as I am aware. So in reality, nuclear is competing with heavily subsided fossil fuels (I wish I could find out how much exactly), geothermal and hydro, unless we can make mass storage battery production economically viable. In other words, this debate goes beyond just numbers.
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  2.  @Jinkypigs  you talk like mass energy storage is a trivial matter. Nuclear has plenty of fail safes, that's why no one died from radiation in Fukushima. There is probably not enough batteries in the entire US to reliably power California solely on renewables. Nickel and cobalt for batteries are troublesome in their own ways.
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