3 分 | 作者 leonidasrup 6小时前
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- dotcoma 6小时前The real ghost here is a technology from the XX Century that some, like Politico and, I imagine, their corporate backers, would like to bring back to life.
The article says "Sweden, Finland and the U.K. are expanding or extending nuclear programs". AFAIK, 'new' nuclear energy facilities in Finland and the UK were planned a long time ago, and have been delivered late and terribly over budget.
Shutting down nuclear plants now is unwise, but building new ones is folly. In Italy, new plants would be ready by 2040 (my guess) the earliest. We need to move away from fossil fuels NOW, and solar + wind + batteries is the way to do it.
- leonidasrup 4小时前'new' nuclear energy facilities in UAE, South Korea and China have been delivered on time and on budget. It really depends on stability of political support and maturity of the supply chain, as hinted in the article "“One of the first reactors would more likely take 12 to 15 years,” Romano said."
The problem with "We need to move away from fossil fuels NOW" is, that the world is currently not moving in this direction, as you can see from the annual CO2 emissions statistics.
https://www.iea.org/reports/global-energy-review-2025/co2-em...
We need all the low-carbon technologies and nuclear power is a long term low-carbon technology.
- dotcoma 2小时前Wind is growing and solar in growing incredibly fast, and they are growing NOW.
Demand is also growing, but I doubt the solution is to bet on something that will be ready 15 years from now, when either solar and batteries will have solved the problem, or we’re going to be in serious trouble.
Even China is betting on solar (and batteries) much more than on nuclear.
- leonidasrup 13分钟前Solar is growing 2x faster than wind.
https://ourworldindata.org/electricity-mix
China is betting on everything: solar, wind, hydro, coal, nuclear.
China is building the most solar, most wind, has build the biggest hydro power plants, is building most coal power plants, is building most nuclear power plants.
I agree that China is betting on solar (and batteries) much more than on nuclear, on the other hand China is currently betting more on coal than nuclear. Decarbonization is not high priority for China, the priority is producing cost effective energy from domestic sources, be it domestic coal, solar, hydro, wind.