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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Iron air batteries look promising for medium duration, but seasonal still isn't solved. It's going to have to be gas for the dunkelflaute until that's solved, but I'm not sure there's any way out of this but to build more renewables. Nuclear would not be cheaper on average. The only nuclear plant in the UK under construction was going to be built in 6 years and cost £18B, it's now going to be 9 years and £23B and likely to go much higher. The initial ground surveys to asses suitability for the site were in 2006. That's 15 years ago and it's not expected to power anything until 2026. We need to lower the GHG emissions a lot by 2030, so it's just not going to cut it
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If the world pivoted to nuclear and focused on smaller cookie cutter reactors instead of these huge one-off plants then we could achieve economies of scale and better reliability/safety.