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by tuatoru 1426 days ago
> It is often technically difficult but more importantly economically prohibitive to run nuclear as on demand sources.

I'd just like to point out that the US Navy has an excellent track record running nuclear reactors that ramp up to full and down to zero rapidly, in submarines.

The US Navy does not have quite the same financial constraints as commercial land-based power, but constraints still exist.

I fully agree that solar PV and wind, especially PV, are much more atttractive to investors because you can be earning cashflow from your first MW of capacity while you're installing the second (which takes weeks (or days!) instead of years), and you can iterate and scale this all the way to 10 TW or more of capacity, as the demand requires.