> China is doing it, even while they export the solar panels that everybody is buying.
replyWould be interesting to know how much nuclear vs solar they are building per year domestically.
Brainwashed fission bros double-count reactor builds every year they are under construction. In terms of completed stations, China is opening 1 new reactor (~2GW) and hundreds of new PV stations (~300GW) per year. Over 99% of it is solar and nuclear is a sideshow.
replyWow that's bananas. I suspected the answer would skew towards solar but not by that much. To me that also substantially discredits the "bureaucracy makes nuclear expensive" argument, my impression is the Chinese at doing this kind of engineering efficiently.
replyWe absolutely have solved cheap battery storage. 100% solved. It is crazy to make this statement when we are discussing nuclear thermal power, which requires multiple 20-million-dollar steam turbines for every station. You should have said "We still haven't solved cheap superalloy fan blades".
replyI don't think nuclear steam turbines use superalloy. Why should they? The temperature is not that high.
reply"We still haven't solved cheap battery storage."
replywe literally already have salt battery