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zgembo1337 t1_j6tahof wrote

Reply to comment by idontneedfame in No coal comeback: Europe’s renewable energy transition is in hyperdrive by Straight_Ad2258

What do you do on windless nights?

And why the fuck is everyone so aftaid of nuclear?!

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Virtus_Curiosa t1_j6th3p4 wrote

Renewable energy comes from more sources than just wind. Hydroelectric, solar panels, biomass, and geothermal to name a few.

Also a large part of the development of renewable energy sources is long term storage of that energy eg: batteries. So they charge up when the production peaks and get drained over time. ideally there would be a large enough buffer for the energy to remain consistent as the fluctuations in production ebb and flow.

Fukushima and Chernobyl. It's risk vs reward with nuclear energy. It's powerful and relatively clean energy, but when (not if) stuff goes wrong it can go REALLY wrong. Radiation is scary. People are completely right to be afraid of it. That said, you can be afraid of something and still realize it's usefulness and take appropriate precautions toward its use, learn from the mistakes made in the past and make a better system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accidents_by_country

It's a big list.

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SeeminglyBlue t1_j82x4f2 wrote

compare that to coal accidents. nuclear is some of the safest energy we have.. the only reason people get scared is because of a massive disinformation campaign on the part of coal (whose power stations release more than 100 times the radioactive material per year than nuclear). when you start to compare the amount of lives lost and habitat destruction from fossil fuels, you learn that nuclear is a teddy bear compared to them.

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Inariameme t1_j6u9cha wrote

it's called stored energy and there are a lot of creative ways to go about it

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