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I'm only including things that are viable. It seems it's just going to be cheaper to build out significant wind and solar, while keeping nuclear around for the times there's neither wind nor sun.


That's a complete terrible way to use nuclear. The cost per unit of produced energy will be so large that other systems (like storage, including burning hydrogen in turbines) would be much more economical to cover those dark-calm periods.

Nuclear should either be operated all the time, or it shouldn't be used at all.


I believe you can scale nuclear up in times of demand. So you'd be running it at lower capacity when it's not needed




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