General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Nuclear renaissance? US OKs new reactor design [View all]Bob Wallace
(549 posts)In fact, I think we need to expand the grid. It's time to tie the three US grids together and connect them to the Canadian and Mexican grids. We have the ability to create a system like Europe's Desertec in which we harvest energy where it is the cheapest to harvest and move it to the places where we want to use it.
Creating as much 'local' generation as possible gives us more reliability and cuts our needs for transmission. It's a matter of balancing out the best of all.
Of course we'll need lots of storage. Storage of cheap wind and solar electricity is going to be cheaper than nuclear generation.
We need no new technologies. (I'm assuming we're just about 'there' with batteries. Zinc-air and sodium-ion batteries are looking very promising.) We just need to build a lot with the technology we have at hand and continue to improve our technology as we go along.
Edit history
Recommendations
0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):