Complaining about down votes is some small dick reddit energy, don’t do that in the future. We are on Lemmy now.
Now to answer your question. “Renewables*” are supplementary. Wind/Solar cannot provide baseline power, and will never be able to provide baseline power for the grid. Any kind of magical energy storage you can come up with that would allow renewables to replace a power plant also requires exotic/expensive tech that would be more expensive then Nuclear power and still doesn’t address baseline power consumption. This kind of question is also used as a distraction by the fossil fuel industry so that you have countries like Germany replacing nuclear power with coal and strip mining.
Why are they building coal in the first place? Because “renewables” do not produce enough base-line power. If Germany could use magically renewable energy to meet all of their energy demands, they would probably do it, but that isn’t the reality. In the future try to avoid framing solar/wind as competitors to nuclear power. Both are needed, and unlike nuclear power which hasn’t been built on any scale since the 70’s, solar/wind are absolutely used everywhere they can be and if they aren’t sufficient in cases like Georgia, Nuclear should 100% be the answer because if it’s not used you will have coal or gas instead. “Just asking questions” like that shows you don’t understand power-generation and you have fallen for the fossil fuel industries propaganda.
Excellent rundown. The baseline power supplier for when there’s no wind or sun can either be natural gas or nuclear, and nuclear produces far less harmful byproducts.
Complaining about down votes is some small dick reddit energy, don’t do that in the future. We are on Lemmy now.
We are on Lemmy now and can decide to do things in a better way and we can question what was done on Reddit and what we can improve. Or yeah… We can also just don’t do it and be toxic…
I does not matter who you are. There will always be a situation when your have the 33% opinion and others have the 66% opinion. And that’s fine. We are individuals. Giving the 1-vs-2 minority a reason to delete their post because of tons of dislikes… That’s small dick energy level 100.
At least, Lemmy shows us that there are X upvotes and Y downvotes. Reddit would just show the “-Z” value.
don’t do that in the future
I think, you don’t understand my edit above: I told you that I don’t plan to do something, just because the 11-vs-8 majority thinks I should do it.
I went even further and asked on “Ask Lemmy” when people do upvote, downvote and when to just not do anything, because it’s actually interesting… Most people stated that they don’t downvote different opinions under that post, but those who do did probably not leave a comment…
PS: Go ahead, give this one downvote, too. That increases your chances to hear only what you want to hear in the future. 🎉
I think it’s more likely that you come of as disingenuous given that you come here to parrot some very well known talking points that are plain fallacies aimed at painting nuclear in a negative way.
Meanwhile, we are getting slow cooked and a lot of people here probably feel the impact of the heat and the urgency of the situation.
Ok, but why not just answering my original comment with “I researched and found out: They build more nuclear, because they stated that they need a baseline X% reliable energy that is always there and so far, they only have Y% nuclear. Oh, and they have also increased solar at lot recently.” instead of disliking the hell out of it?
It would be benefitial for everyone and I’d give it an instant upvote.
It’s a fact that nuclear power is more expensive than solar and wind. Especially when we talk about insurance of catastrophes. So I think, my question is not that crazy and should be allowed.
BTW: I did not dislike your comment.
PS: Sometimes, I ask myself the question “What, if everyone would do XYZ?”… What, if everyone would dislike every other opinion? Be honest: This platform would be toxic AF. I gave probably 1k likes and under 10 dislikes on lemmy so far and I keep going the way of positivity, because I think, in the end, it’s better for Lemmy.
Complaining about down votes is some small dick reddit energy, don’t do that in the future. We are on Lemmy now.
Now to answer your question. “Renewables*” are supplementary. Wind/Solar cannot provide baseline power, and will never be able to provide baseline power for the grid. Any kind of magical energy storage you can come up with that would allow renewables to replace a power plant also requires exotic/expensive tech that would be more expensive then Nuclear power and still doesn’t address baseline power consumption. This kind of question is also used as a distraction by the fossil fuel industry so that you have countries like Germany replacing nuclear power with coal and strip mining.
Why are they building coal in the first place? Because “renewables” do not produce enough base-line power. If Germany could use magically renewable energy to meet all of their energy demands, they would probably do it, but that isn’t the reality. In the future try to avoid framing solar/wind as competitors to nuclear power. Both are needed, and unlike nuclear power which hasn’t been built on any scale since the 70’s, solar/wind are absolutely used everywhere they can be and if they aren’t sufficient in cases like Georgia, Nuclear should 100% be the answer because if it’s not used you will have coal or gas instead. “Just asking questions” like that shows you don’t understand power-generation and you have fallen for the fossil fuel industries propaganda.
Excellent rundown. The baseline power supplier for when there’s no wind or sun can either be natural gas or nuclear, and nuclear produces far less harmful byproducts.
We are on Lemmy now and can decide to do things in a better way and we can question what was done on Reddit and what we can improve. Or yeah… We can also just don’t do it and be toxic…
I does not matter who you are. There will always be a situation when your have the 33% opinion and others have the 66% opinion. And that’s fine. We are individuals. Giving the 1-vs-2 minority a reason to delete their post because of tons of dislikes… That’s small dick energy level 100.
At least, Lemmy shows us that there are X upvotes and Y downvotes. Reddit would just show the “-Z” value.
I think, you don’t understand my edit above: I told you that I don’t plan to do something, just because the 11-vs-8 majority thinks I should do it.
I went even further and asked on “Ask Lemmy” when people do upvote, downvote and when to just not do anything, because it’s actually interesting… Most people stated that they don’t downvote different opinions under that post, but those who do did probably not leave a comment…
PS: Go ahead, give this one downvote, too. That increases your chances to hear only what you want to hear in the future. 🎉
I think it’s more likely that you come of as disingenuous given that you come here to parrot some very well known talking points that are plain fallacies aimed at painting nuclear in a negative way.
Meanwhile, we are getting slow cooked and a lot of people here probably feel the impact of the heat and the urgency of the situation.
Ok, but why not just answering my original comment with “I researched and found out: They build more nuclear, because they stated that they need a baseline X% reliable energy that is always there and so far, they only have Y% nuclear. Oh, and they have also increased solar at lot recently.” instead of disliking the hell out of it?
It would be benefitial for everyone and I’d give it an instant upvote.
It’s a fact that nuclear power is more expensive than solar and wind. Especially when we talk about insurance of catastrophes. So I think, my question is not that crazy and should be allowed.
BTW: I did not dislike your comment.
PS: Sometimes, I ask myself the question “What, if everyone would do XYZ?”… What, if everyone would dislike every other opinion? Be honest: This platform would be toxic AF. I gave probably 1k likes and under 10 dislikes on lemmy so far and I keep going the way of positivity, because I think, in the end, it’s better for Lemmy.