Those 800 wind turbines can be built in a month. Building a nuclear plant takes decades. And nuclear fuel reprocessing had never been economical by a long shot. Your pipe dreams will always regain just that and that's before we even start talking about proliferation and nuclear waste.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Building a nuclear plant takes decades.

In China they do it in 6 years...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/712841/median-construction-time-for-reactors-since-1981/

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And in those 6 years, you could have built over 6x that capacity in renewables, easy.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

You can also built more than 1 reactor at the same time

[–] 418_im_a_teapot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The same can be said of any power source?

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 1 points 31 minutes ago

Sure, but the other commenter conveniently forgot that that's the case for nuclear as well

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You could, but with that colossal amount of resources you could have built 12x in renewables, probably more because of economy of scale.

And if you decide to commit all those resources to renewables, you probably just created a booming local industry of well paying jobs.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 2 points 33 minutes ago

But then you still haven't solved any of the issues with renewables (at least solar and wind); The amount of space they take up, their inconsistent power output and power grids which haven't been designed for them.