Comment by RandomLensman

Comment by RandomLensman 12 hours ago

2 replies

Why would, e.g., solar and chemical or physical storage be a stopgap? Why spend 20 years of building a fission reactor these days (other than for research, medical, or defense purposes) which also make awful targets in a conflict? Maybe just wait till fusion reactors are there.

kulahan 4 hours ago

Why would fusion reactors magically appear when the entire field of nuclear energy production is, in this scenario, essentially dead??

bluefirebrand 5 hours ago

Because the reactor will still run 20 years after that while the solar and storage will need to be replaced by then