TWENTY NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS - Fifty Percent of the nation's energy needs.

[jeff47]

66. So...you'd like me to more-or-less provide my home address so that I can

prove the laws of physics still apply?

How 'bout I'll provide that right after you provide yours. And if you're dumb enough to do that, you should be prepared for the onslaught of junk mail and other crap from the actual right-wing trolls.

If you want to prove me wrong, all you have to do is show how you can provide power during a calm, cloudy day when it's been calm and cloudy for a week using currently-available technology deployed in a remotely feasible manner (no 800 million gallon pumped hydro, for example). Calm and cloudy for a week does happen regularly here, so it's a situation that has to be handled.

The best solar thermal plants at the moment store enough heat for about 24 hours of non-sunny operation. Even with limited reheating during the cloudy days, they can't go a week.
Photovoltaic would require a massively large array to deal with the reduced solar input, and can't deal with night using currently-available battery technology.
Wind is out because it's calm, or again will require massive overbuilding of turbines.
Tidal is out, because I'm inland.
Biomass - don't have required farmland. And trucking that in isn't gonna exactly be 'renewable'.
Bring it in from the grid over a very long connection? Well, there's a reason I'm not getting any power from Hoover Dam at the moment. Plus the locals recently blocked a grid interconnect in the area so getting those lines strung isn't going to be politically easy.

So, how do you provide me reliable, renewable power using currently-available technology?

And how much CO2 should we dump into the atmosphere so we can shut down nuclear plants while we wait for the inventions we need for reliable renewable baseload?