Comment by pfdietz

3 hours ago

A civilization that uses storage to level that intermittency. It's perfectly possible to power industrial world civilization using only renewables, and it would be cheaper than trying to do it with fission (which would require breeder reactors, btw.)

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cbmuser  3 hours ago

No, it’s not and you have no clue what you are talking about.

There is a reason even Germany is still heavily dependent on coal despite investing hundreds of billions into renewables

It simply does not work without dispatchable energy sources.

  • pfdietz  3 hours ago

    Yes, it is possible. You need to penalize fossil fuels with CO2 charges, but that's needed to get a nuclear powered economy too.

    Your argument about Germany is obviously BS, basically "it didn't happen yet therefore it can't happen". Solutions must apparently leap fully implemented into the world or else they are impossible, by your logic. Do you apply the same logic to nuclear, since no country gets the majority of its energy from nuclear (not even France)?

    Storage can be dispatched, you know (and it's not just batteries.)