>>107127418 (OP)
If electric cars become the majority of cars, and if workplace charging becomes normalized, the solar peak vs consumption peak will align perfectly.
Neither will happen though. It is easier to just draw HVDC lines over several timezones and just pass the extra solar power back and forth between states or countries.
I also am on full hopium that heat storage will become good enough to massively scale, but it won't work for PV solar panels which fit on buildings.
>>107128763
Look up breeder reactors. You can recycle "spent" rods over and over until you are left with little amounts of material (which is weapons grade so this should only be allowed in first world countries)
Even if you don't use breeder reactors, you can just stuff the spent fuel underground in tectonically stable rocks. Nature already has radioactive uranium deposits, nothing will happen if we shove some of it back in a controlled manner.
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>>107129694
The entire country of France and the province of Ontario don't seem to mind the amounts of nuclear plants around them. I prefer it to any other type of a power plant, save maybe to hydro if I'm not in its floodpath.
>>107129282
>will have to be replaced in 8
You are making shit up because of being buck broken by politics. You can disagree with 99% of liberal policies without lying to yourself about solar power. Just because it is being pushed by your political rivals doesn't mean it is bad.
Solar panels last decades. Even when they start losing efficiency, say down to 50% in a nightmare scenario, it is still literal free power long after ROI. Newer panels from the last decade also lose efficiency really slowly unlike older ones. They are also cheaper even eith zero subsidies.
