Dallas (Join Something IRL) on Nostr: npub1g0tuf…3tvm4 Renewables are super important. Absolutely. But they just can't ...
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Renewables are super important. Absolutely. But they just can't meet all of our energy needs, that this goes beyond the "sun doesn't always shine" and "wind doesn't always blow" arguments. Sometimes we just need raw heat, for example. It takes a lot of heat to bake lime into cement. A cement kiln heats lime mixtures to about 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit in huge cylindrical steel rotary kilns. That's very difficult to do with just electric kilns on an industrial scale.
Even if we were to crack the storage problem for the grid (which I don't really think is that difficult of a technical problem, it's a funding problem), Nuclear could help fill other specific energy needs like this.
Renewables are super important. Absolutely. But they just can't meet all of our energy needs, that this goes beyond the "sun doesn't always shine" and "wind doesn't always blow" arguments. Sometimes we just need raw heat, for example. It takes a lot of heat to bake lime into cement. A cement kiln heats lime mixtures to about 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit in huge cylindrical steel rotary kilns. That's very difficult to do with just electric kilns on an industrial scale.
Even if we were to crack the storage problem for the grid (which I don't really think is that difficult of a technical problem, it's a funding problem), Nuclear could help fill other specific energy needs like this.