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To: Red Badger

And the 30 million acre Gulf of America wind farm........?


4 posted on 05/28/2025 6:06:44 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐Ÿ’ฉ? ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘!)
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To: rktman

Has nothing to do with this really.

By 2035, already-being-implemented battery technology will allow wind farms and solar to be used for use surges, while nuclear remains useful for a steady output for baseline energy usage. That baseline usage probably represents 40% or more of energy usage, meaning nuclear could more than double to meet baseline, and maybe double again by the time electric vehicles and a revitalized domestic industry are accounted for. But at the same time, nuclear power can’t be scaled up and down over a short period, so beyond 40% would require the same sort of battery-enabled delay that solar and wind require. And of course, solar is already much cheaper than conventional nuclear power.

You didn’t really think this article was proposing a single-solution energy policy, did you?


39 posted on 05/28/2025 8:39:56 AM PDT by dangus
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