• maplesaga@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Maybe Nuclear, given it can actually support the base load power, except they need to fully deregulate it first so Nimbys and lawsuits balloon the cost. It shouldnt cost more nowadays in inflation adjusted terms than France building them in the 70s.

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      20 minutes ago

      Your talking points are ten years out of date. The cheapest form of baseload power now is batteries plus solar. For seasonal variations? Nuclear is so expensive that it’s far cheaper to just build enough to meet your winter electricity demand and have abundant power the rest of the year.

      Fission is a dead end technology that people mostly support now so they can feel a sense of contrarian intellectual superiority. It’s all just vibes at this point.

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        14 minutes ago

        Do you have an example of a city that runs on renewables with battery storage with no duplicate backup base load generator?

        As far as I was aware there were none, as it is non-feasible outside of areas with hydro dams for power storage.