sv1sjp@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoYoung climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stancewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square1085fedilinkarrow-up12.28Karrow-down1139
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minus-squarezagaberoo@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year 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-21 year 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.