>>14200684>Read a fucking book and stop clamoring to 1960s boomer futurism. Renewables are the future.LCOE doesn't tell the whole story though. It's no good being able to generate electricity with e.g. solar only during periods of high insolation.
On a price per MWh it might seem cheap, but it's only because the production profile of solar and wind are not matched with demand. During the night or still days you would need either energy storage, or some kind of a backup (coal, gas, nuclear etc) which eliminates the price advantage.
Nuclear's main problem is how insanely expensive it is to build in the USA. SK have shown that you can build cheap nuclear, so it's not impossible, but for whatever reason you can't do it cheap in the USA.
>>14201380>Making aolar panels takes water to boil after all What do you think happens to water after it boils? It doesn't just escape into space you know.
>>14187566>Wild to think that to this day, human energy generation still relies on boiling water but with different fancy versions of wood. This just isn't true. Look up "Brayton Cycle" - you can push hot air through a turbine. The air can be heated via a heat exchanger coupled to e.g. a molten salt cooled, liquid metal cooled, or gas cooled reactor. Even in water-cooled reactors with Rankine Cycles driving the turbine, the steam doesn't just shoot off into the atmosphere, it gets condensed back into water, re-pressurized, and boiled again.
