• Zeoic@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Yes, but they are unreliable. Nuclear is an amazing option for base loads, and then adding renewables on top of that just makes sense. Battery energy storage is still insanely expensive, so nuclear is a very valid alternative in countries that haven’t let their nuclear production capabilities fall off to the point of taking decades.

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        1 day ago

        Agreed, but it is so incredibly geography dependant that you can’t really generalize with it.

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        23 hours ago

        You definitely have to ignore ecological concerns when talking about hydro.