With the ever-ongoing ‘progress’ of the proposed UK nuclear power plants, I wonder if this is the best course of action (not just in the UK, but across other nations also)?
With the ever-ongoing ‘progress’ of the proposed UK nuclear power plants, I wonder if this is the best course of action (not just in the UK, but across other nations also)?
Wind and solar. Pop up, pop down. Nuclear needs entrenched infrastructure. The future is always renewables.
Ok wait what’s the plan for a cold still day? You need a base load supplier like nuclear for renewables to work
Yet, it seems like there’s always this massive push in the UK to build more nuclear plants, so where (and why) does that idea come from? Is it about quick, cheap energy?
I don’t think anyone would ever describe nuclear energy as cheap nor quick
True in terms of set-up, but afterwards, maybe?
There is currently an absolutely massive buildout of offshore wind atm, (dogger bank a/b , Sofia, east Anglia 3, inch cape, hornsea 3) and solar to a lessor degree. Its just the right media like nuclear as a solution so its talked about more than action taken
Private equity attempting to capture profits. Much harder to do with renewables.
China has long term planning so they were happy to give the UK cheap loan deals to build nuclear plants to create work for the Chinese nuclear industry. Then the US started doing an Iron Curtain against China, so to suck up to both the US and China the UK had to buy out all the planned Chinese-partnered nuclear plants. To avoid looking like losers UK politicians insist on trying to go through with building them without China at crippling expense while trying to pretend like it’s not a disaster.
You get a lot more energy for little resources, ignoring the upfront cost. Also the other comment