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DetlefK

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6. Nuclear power is the future. You are overlooking one crucial factor:

Tue Aug 27, 2019, 06:46 AM

Aug 2019

Wind, solar and water create electricity in a decentraliced grid. Currently, our grids are built for centralized electricity-production.

In order to switch to environmentally friendly electricity-sources, we would need a MASSIVE OVERHAUL of almost the entire electricity-grid of a country from centralized to decentralized balancing of voltage and current.

The US can't even repair its bridges. What are the odds it will be able to pull off an even bigger infrastructure-project?

Fusion-reactors are centralized electricity-production. You take a fission-reactor offline, you bring a fusion-reactor online, and grid and consumers won't notice any difference.

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World's Largest Nuclear Fusion Experimental Reactor Clears Milestone [View all] crazytown Aug 2019 OP

we have more energy than we need from another fusion reactor Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2019 #1

I believe economics will kill nuclear power. crazytown Aug 2019 #2

automakers put the brakes on Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2019 #3

Do you remember 'Who Killed the Electric Car?' (2006) crazytown Aug 2019 #4

yep. have a copy here. Hermit-The-Prog Aug 2019 #5

You forgot what you also have to give up Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2019 #9

Nuclear power is the future. You are overlooking one crucial factor: DetlefK Aug 2019 #6

As I said it is a matter of economics. crazytown Aug 2019 #7

Note: This is in FRANCE, not "Great" America. The Cryostat is made in INDIA, not Trumpistan. . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2019 #8

The Large Hadron Collider is in Europe. REPUBLICONS killed the (earlier) US version Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2019 #10

Thank you, I had a hunch it Ilsa Aug 2019 #11