2026-10-28 04:51 UTC
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@eicker@lemmy.world 2026-10-28 04:53
Turns out the sun has a few competitive advantages over nuclear: free fuel, no radioactive waste, and it doesn’t need a decade of permits before it starts shining. The real bottleneck now is grids and storage. Imagine losing the energy race to a giant fusion reactor 93 million miles away. 😎
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@Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 2026-10-28 05:17
Approaching this problem like it has one perfect solution is pure ignorance.
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@random_character_a@lemmy.world 2026-10-28 05:39
Now we just need a cheap sustainable storage medium for all that solar power and were golden. Anyone?
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@Hegar@fedia.io 2026-10-28 05:52
Nuclear plants - with high start-up costs, national security risks and high output - will always require concentrating large amounts of power in few hands. Solar has much greater potential for decentralization. Greater inequality results in a worse society in just about every imaginable way. And nuclear will always encourage that more than solar.
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@abc@suppo.fi 2026-10-28 06:13
Solar is great but so is nuclear. They have different use cases, we need both. Easily the cheapest energy is that you have a nuclear power plant up already and you keep it running. Germany royally fucked that one up.
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@HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2026-10-28 06:41
Nuclear is like fighter jets, a relic of the profligate cheap energy 20th century.
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@arak@lemmy.today 2026-10-28 06:53
Thank you China, thank you Korea(for USA)
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@realitista@lemmus.org 2026-10-28 07:34
Solar is great for where it’s sunny. Not as great where it’s not.
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@AlSweigart@lemmy.zip 2026-10-29 03:21
We could have had this 30 years ago. There have been improvements in the tech and manufacturing, but the main reason for the price drop has been the scale of sales.
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@Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 2026-10-28 14:56
Turns out we already have fusion power, it's just been placed safely 149.6 million km away. The solution to energy independence comes up every morning.
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@Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-29 03:42
headline is clickbait. here’s the only thing it relies on: According to new reporting by the BBC, photovoltaics will account for 10 percent of the world’s power generation by the end of 2026, a threshold which will see solar energy officially surpass nuclear fission. Compared to nuclear energy generation — which has stayed largely flat over the past 26 years globally — the publication notes the volume of solar energy being generated has exploded, increasing some 2,700 times over across the same period. so it’s saying that nuclear usage share is so low that solar will very soon generate more power than it, not that solar panels are now more efficient than nuclear
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@Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-28 14:32
While I consider myself pro nuclear, there is something that gets forgotten everytime this conversation comes up. Nuclear produces waste, which is mentioned often but it is usually responded by pointing out that it could be recycled and the worse to be buried. Here is what people miss: Are all our nuclear waste handled correctly today? If not then why should we imply that they will be in the future. The problem with nuclear isn’t that the waste is impossible to handle, it’s that humans are too short sighted to follow through with it. And imo that’s a very valid argument on why we should use solar as much as we can.
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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-10-29 04:45
nuclear power is expensive to maintain, plus needs all those expertise. and building the power plant takes like a decade+, and then you have to deal regulatory issues. solar, you can pratically put that anywhere on the cheap.