Those 800 wind turbines can be built in a month. Building a nuclear plant takes decades. And nuclear fuel reprocessing had never been economical by a long shot. Your pipe dreams will always regain just that and that's before we even start talking about proliferation and nuclear waste.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Building a nuclear plant takes decades.

In China they do it in 6 years...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/712841/median-construction-time-for-reactors-since-1981/

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And in those 6 years, you could have built over 6x that capacity in renewables, easy.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You can also built more than 1 reactor at the same time

[–] 418_im_a_teapot@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The same can be said of any power source?

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 1 points 5 days ago

Sure, but the other commenter conveniently forgot that that's the case for nuclear as well

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You could, but with that colossal amount of resources you could have built 12x in renewables, probably more because of economy of scale.

And if you decide to commit all those resources to renewables, you probably just created a booming local industry of well paying jobs.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But then you still haven't solved any of the issues with renewables (at least solar and wind); The amount of space they take up, their inconsistent power output and power grids which haven't been designed for them.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It saddens me that we're here dealing with a push for obsolete, untenable solutions, and all the while, China keeps solving your "impossible issues" on the daily:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241113-will-chinas-ultra-high-voltage-grid-pay-off-for-renewable-power

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 1 points 5 days ago

That's what happens when not everything is privatised and only made for direct profit, I suppose