Comment by mulmen

Comment by mulmen 13 hours ago

Wind and solar are literally fusion power with extra steps.

Running our own fusion reactors would be great but waste is not limited to fission designs. All nuclear generation has radioactive waste, it’s unavoidable.

Grid scale storage with renewables can absolutely meet our needs.

mpweiher 12 hours ago

> extra steps.

Those extra steps are crucial, as they massively dilute the output and make it weather/daylight and seasonally dependent.

Intermittent renewables produce at least an order of magnitude more waste than nuclear reactors, be they fusion or fission.

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g-b-r 9 hours ago

> Those extra steps are crucial, as they massively dilute the output and make it weather/daylight and seasonally dependent
and leave the waste on a far away star

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mulmen 10 hours ago

How are you defining waste here?
Nuclear reactors can’t adjust production rapidly and require peaker plants. I don’t have to squint to see how this is also solved by grid scale storage.

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pfdietz 12 hours ago

> Wind and solar are literally fusion power with extra steps.

This observation seems entirely useless and pointless. What implication are you saying we should draw from this?

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