This is a (slightly older) article about Nuclear Energy and climate change. It’s a hottly debated topic in climate communities, so I thought some of you would enjoy to read it.
Another article that brings up some more points against nuclear power can be found here.
I’d be interested what you ppl think of the matter.
Sure, but storage at this point in time is very very expensive. Battery storage costs $350-400/KWh. Reservoir storage costs $250/KWh and it’s not scalable or applicable everywhere.
https://www.pnnl.gov/sites/default/files/media/file/Final - ESGC Cost Performance Report 12-11-2020.pdf
By night the sun does not shine. On cloudy days, the sun does not shine. And if by any chance, the wind also does not blow, you have a national emergency in your hands.
No amount of optimization is going to solve this.