> especially with wind/solar prices plummeting every year.
Past performance isn't indicative of future gains. At some moment prices will plateau, or even rebound (e.g. the same was said for batteries, and now prices are up due to too much demand and raw material shortages).
Not to mention that at some point you will run out of suitable locations either due to actual space limitations or just lack of desire from people to have wind turbines nearby or solar panels taking up valuable land. (Of course offshore wind and rooftop solar kind of mitigate this).
You can't really beat the energy density of nuclear reactors per land taken, so they shouldn't be discarded.
There is a limit to my faith that the plummeting of these prices will continue without fossil fuel use to produce the equipment. We are also in an inflationary period where raw materials may see outsized gains.
Past performance isn't indicative of future gains. At some moment prices will plateau, or even rebound (e.g. the same was said for batteries, and now prices are up due to too much demand and raw material shortages).
Not to mention that at some point you will run out of suitable locations either due to actual space limitations or just lack of desire from people to have wind turbines nearby or solar panels taking up valuable land. (Of course offshore wind and rooftop solar kind of mitigate this).
You can't really beat the energy density of nuclear reactors per land taken, so they shouldn't be discarded.