HumanPenguin to United KingdomEnglish · 11 months agoGrant Shapps earmarks £20bn for new fleet of nuclear reactors in UKwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down10
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minus-squareBarttier@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoStorage. It is possible. Cheaper and safer. Safe potential, and chemical energy. It is even more realistic with current and future power grids. Solar and wind energy never needed terms like nuclear semiotics. Safe technologies don’t need those terms.
minus-squareXIIIesq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoStorage is a great idea but it’s still an establishing technology, the best storage we have so far is pumped storage like at Cruachan dam. Until storage is established and available to implement we need something to bridge the gap.
Storage. It is possible. Cheaper and safer. Safe potential, and chemical energy. It is even more realistic with current and future power grids.
Solar and wind energy never needed terms like nuclear semiotics. Safe technologies don’t need those terms.
Storage is a great idea but it’s still an establishing technology, the best storage we have so far is pumped storage like at Cruachan dam.
Until storage is established and available to implement we need something to bridge the gap.