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Also known as a single nuclear reactor. While I am all for renewables the real problem is storage and buffering. The solutions in these areas are improving but not nearly as fast as needed.

A cheap supercapacitor with less than 10% daily discharge rate could go a long way in positioning renewables to shine.

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That's a good point that it amounts to a single nuclear reactor.

It would be interesting to compare:

Capital requirement

Insurability

Maximum damage to the environment in case of a disaster

Decommissioning costs

Maintenance costs

Construction schedule

Maximum damage to the environment in case of a disaster for a 1MW reactor with a lot of waste fuel stored on the site is rendering the Northern Hemisphere (where almost all such reactors are) inhabitable.

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Well, a single nuclear reactor minus the waste that needs to be stored for thousands of years.

Hmm ... it was more of a scale comparison, not endorcement of nuclear fission.

But anyway breeders are a partial solution to that problem and we haven't actually put a lot of effort into the waste disposal.

Windmills make tons and tons of waste - there are entire mountains made from mine tailings and slag (obviously not all from windmills, but don't think windmills are free of waste).

Nuclear power has much less waste.

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