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Bad move IMO. It took an earthquake and Tsunami to bring down Fukishima. With solar, it will take.....night time.
If anything demonstrated the overall safety of nuclear power, the accidents in Japan did.
The answer is to solve the problems with nuclear, such as going to Thorium reactors and actually building waste repositories - and also taking continengy planning seriously. In the post 9-11 U.S., I don't see a Fukishima happening - disaster planning is done in depth.
Japan Needs Molten Thorium Salt reactors, heck all 1st world countries need them...
Either that or orbital solar.
Of course in the interim we need more oil and gas exploration.
After government takes every strategy for waste management off the table, it's the industry's fault that they can't manage their waste. Brilliant. /s
Solar’s a liberal fantasy... Japan couldn’t run a village on it...
Solar watts instead of nuclear megawatts. That’s a plan.
No they won’t. Solar won’t cut it.
If E-Cat (look up LENR, Rossi) turns out to be the real deal, they will turn to it for their power generation.
BTW, so will everyone else. It’s a game changer.
Mass solar power is a stupid idea. The Japanese are not a stupid people.
Will the Greens scream as forest is cut down because shade doesn't power anything, and gets in the way of panels that do?
How many square miles of solar panels will it take to replace the power from one nucleur reactor?
Will the Greens scream as forest is cut down because shade doesn’t power anything, and gets in the way of panels that do?
Because the Japanese don’t need electricity at night?
Because they have sites to dump all the toxic waste from making solar panel, not to mention the toxic worn-out solar panels themselves?
Because they have lots and lots of empty space to use for solar farms?
Because they lots of excess cash to invest in inefficient power generation schemes?
Boy those Japanese are lucky!
Well, there's your problem right there. And every other nuke site in the world has the same problem. When are we finally going to do something to fix it?
The Japanese will spend trillions on solar power only to find it will not replace their nuclear power program in any large part. Solar might work on a small scale but cannot supply the power needs of an industrial nation.
Maybe the Japanese know something the rest of the world does’nt about solar energy. But I doubt it or they’d be marketing it.
I think some 80% of Japan’s electrical energy is generated by nukes. Not sure what that translates to in kws, but if they shut down their nukes it’ll be decades before the country ever has a chance of regaining its industrial footing.
Solar technology is just not viable as a replacement energy generation system And it will be decades before it gets there—if it ever does.
My money is on more practical heads prevailing as time elapses and emotions calm down. There has always been a vociferous Japanese anti-nuke crowd in the Land of the Rising Sun. Partly because of the a-bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Partly because of that island nation’s vigorous Marxist contingent.
As we watch the “lost decade” evolve into the lost century.
Isn’t real estate a very precious commodity in Japan? About the only open place to host a solar panel array will be in the Fukishima Exclusion Zone.
I think they should power their country with American coal.
Solar power doth not steel make.