KnusperNov 17, 2023

Price of solar dropped 89% in ten years

https://feddit.de/post/5764680

Price of solar dropped 89% in ten years - Feddit

Solar now being the cheapest energy source made its rounds on Lemmy some weeks ago, if I remember correctly. I just found this graphic and felt it was worth sharing independently. Source: https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth [https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth]

Show threaddeegeeseNov 17, 2023

Pretty clearly shows why there’s no future for nuclear power.

Even for filling gaps in renewables, peaker plants are getting cheaper and don’t take 15 years to build.

Show threadVendetta9076Nov 17, 2023
This is always a weird take to me because it always ignores the fact that nuclear has been screwed continuously for decades. If any other tecbology, renewable energy or not, had the same public and private blockers did it would also have no future.
Show threaddeegeeseNov 17, 2023

Nuclear has been screwed by its own track record.

Why do you think it’s had such a wide coalition of public and private opponents?

Show threaddinckelNov 17, 2023
“I’ve ignored and circumvented every known safety measure, and everything went wrong” - Whoever the fuck said that, 2023
Show threaddeegeeseNov 17, 2023
Making up straw men to defeat?
Show threadUranium3006Nov 17, 2023
if you cite chernobyl that's exactly what you're saying. it'll never happen again because no one's that dumb
Show threaddeegeese

Fukushima happened in “smart” Japan because it was cheaper to put the backup generators in the basement than to build a concrete podium taller than the tsunamis that previously hit the site.

Capitalism will always choose cost over safety. Even then nuclear ends up going way over budget.

Nov 17, 2023 at 8:57pmWeb
Show threadirmozNov 18, 2023
Then we shouldn’t leave energy security and the climate in the hands of capital.
Show threadUranium3006Nov 18, 2023
indeed. also chernobyl and fukushima aren't comparable, really. I'd support a law that all new power reactors need to have passive cooling relying on the laws of physics, not relying on external power, but that's not a high bar and many designs already have it. remember that most currently operating reactors were built all at once in the mid 20th century and even then their safety record has been great. we can do better with new construction