[suoduandao3]

Batteries might work for storage, they have their own version of moore's law and will continue to get better and cheaper for a while.

Now if only there were a way to bundle that energy storage with a means of transportation...

[vlovich123]

You realize the irony of replying on a thread about an article saying we’ve grossly underestimated by 3x the amount of battery materials we’ll need? And that’s just for EVs, not grid batteries. Yes, there’s the far out idea of maybe we can use car batteries to do that role but our grid is not designed for it and there’s all sorts of other problems of that.

Fission is a much saner cost effective solution that requires much fewer ancillary changes than renewables would to fully move the grid.

[suoduandao3]

If Fission is so great, go build it. I'm not stopping you. But use your own money or get off the podium.

[vlovich123]

That’s such an uninteresting comment. Use your own money to get solar off the podium? Remember that solar received substantial subsidies to bootstrap via rooftop solar. And fission’s biggest problem isn’t necessarily funding but that there’s all sorts of regulations placed on it to stop it from being successful. So you can’t just go out and build your own nuclear plant.

[suoduandao3]

If regulation is the problem, why is nuclear most successful in France?

And I've had solar companies in my portfolio for the last decade. They're a great investment.

[vlovich123]

Because France didn’t over regulate the nuclear industry at the behest of the coal industry like as happened in the US? Or are you making a blanket generalization about France without knowing anything about their government because you’ve associated socialism and regulation and France in your head?

As for solar companies stock prices doing great, how is that relevant at all?

[suoduandao3]

It's relevant because you challenged me to put my money where my mouth is, as I'm challenging you. And I have.

You say you haven't because of onerous regulations and it's true, I associate France with a heavier regulatory burden than most Anglophone countries. If it's the coal lobby that killed Nuclear's profitability in the US, I have two questions:

1) why are you attacking renewables rather than the coal industry? If you think Nuclear could compete on an economic basis with renewables, surely you could make common cause with my side of this debate to properly price fossil energy's negative externalities and let the market sort out the winners once that's achieved.

2) Why not build a nuclear reactor in Mexico and export the power to the US? Or in any of the other low-regulation countries with a neighbor looking to import power? If it's regulations that make nuclear unprofitable, surely nuclear investors could regulation-shop.