ignoring the fact that we live in the real world where money isn't infinite: nuclear provides stable base power generation, and it does it without taking up a lot of space.

Renewables produce power intermittently, and require storage to match demand. Storage either requires non-renewable resources like lithium, or else large amounts of land. in theory yes, any amount of power could be produced by renewables, but in practice renewables require other non-infinite resources to turn the power they generate into actual usable electricity coming out of your wall socket.

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tcfhgj 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Storage either requires non-renewable resources like lithium, or else large amounts of land

Neither, see gas caverns underground

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fundatus 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Nuclear also requires non-infinite resources like uranium.

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peterfirefly 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

There's plenty for a few thousand years. We might have solved fusion power by then.

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		How plenty is the supply that's not in some other countries control, that might make us dependent on them, yet again, like with Germany, gas and Russia.

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chickenbig 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Wind and solar require non-infinite resources too.

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