Comment by notatoad
2 days ago
ignoring the fact that we live in the real world where money isn't infinite: nuclear provides stable base power generation, and it does it without taking up a lot of space.
Renewables produce power intermittently, and require storage to match demand. Storage either requires non-renewable resources like lithium, or else large amounts of land. in theory yes, any amount of power could be produced by renewables, but in practice renewables require other non-infinite resources to turn the power they generate into actual usable electricity coming out of your wall socket.
> Storage either requires non-renewable resources like lithium, or else large amounts of land
Neither, see gas caverns underground
Nuclear also requires non-infinite resources like uranium.
There's plenty for a few thousand years. We might have solved fusion power by then.
How plenty is the supply that's not in some other countries control, that might make us dependent on them, yet again, like with Germany, gas and Russia.
Wind and solar require non-infinite resources too.