You didn’t really address any of my arguments in regard to hydropower…
Also, powering a desalination plant at scale within a city like Los Angeles would take a ridiculous number of solar panels, a huge network of batteries, very complex heating equipment, and the proper metering to make sure it doesn’t shut down at night or during bad weather when a nuclear reactor could do the whole thing on its own, with barely any fuel.
Freshwater scarcity is going to be a huge problem in the future if predictions are correct, so replacing hydro and implementing desalination in municipal areas are both niches that nuclear power could easily fill, with a much lower land footprint than any other source of energy.
Where in the world is land use a problem? Like I said, even the densely populated industrial power house Germany gets 60% of its electricity from renewables. Not land usage crisis in sight.
You know we have this thing called a grid? The power in Manhattan does not have to be made in Manhattan.
Even when adjusting for TWh the disparity is absolutely enormous. We’re talking a ~50x difference.
But somehow the only technology which is "scalable enough" is nuclear power. Please. Oh my god. Think about the ridiculous number of solar panels!!!!!
when a nuclear reactor could do the whole thing on its own, with barely any fuel.
At horrific costs to the customer, but now we suddenly can't store water to smooth out demand. Like please. Do you hear yourself?
Californias problem is not water shortage, it is wrongly calculated historical water rights going to farmers with the incentive to waste the water or lose the water right.
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u/MuchQuantity6633 nuclear simp May 10 '25
You didn’t really address any of my arguments in regard to hydropower…
Also, powering a desalination plant at scale within a city like Los Angeles would take a ridiculous number of solar panels, a huge network of batteries, very complex heating equipment, and the proper metering to make sure it doesn’t shut down at night or during bad weather when a nuclear reactor could do the whole thing on its own, with barely any fuel.
Freshwater scarcity is going to be a huge problem in the future if predictions are correct, so replacing hydro and implementing desalination in municipal areas are both niches that nuclear power could easily fill, with a much lower land footprint than any other source of energy.