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Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Solar and wind will always need batteries for times of low output, until we get more resilient and larger capacity batteries we will need a backbone to support the electricity grid to avoid having to overbuild battery capacity.

As of right now natural gas is that backbone but that could change and very well be nuclear energy until we figure out something like mass produced solid state batteries.