sv1sjp@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years agoYoung climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stancewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square1150linkfedilinkarrow-up12.39Karrow-down1150
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minus-squarezagaberoolinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agoSo your grand plan is to keep carbon emitting sources until batteries can completely cover the baseload in all conditions? That’s a non-solution. Batteries, limited as they are, can certainly mitigate ramping issues with nuclear, though.
minus-squarezik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-23 years agoNo, that’s not it. Ultimately a mix of renewables will replace everything. Add say tidal and pumped hydro plus maybe some geothermal etc. and you don’t need any non-renewable energy sources.
So your grand plan is to keep carbon emitting sources until batteries can completely cover the baseload in all conditions? That’s a non-solution.
Batteries, limited as they are, can certainly mitigate ramping issues with nuclear, though.
No, that’s not it. Ultimately a mix of renewables will replace everything. Add say tidal and pumped hydro plus maybe some geothermal etc. and you don’t need any non-renewable energy sources.