Comment by mpweiher
15 hours ago
> extra steps.
Those extra steps are crucial, as they massively dilute the output and make it weather/daylight and seasonally dependent.
Intermittent renewables produce at least an order of magnitude more waste than nuclear reactors, be they fusion or fission.
> Those extra steps are crucial, as they massively dilute the output and make it weather/daylight and seasonally dependent
and leave the waste on a far away star
How are you defining waste here?
Nuclear reactors can’t adjust production rapidly and require peaker plants. I don’t have to squint to see how this is also solved by grid scale storage.