Reply to post: Clean up

Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape

yogidude

Clean up

For all that nuclear power is safe and renewable energy has a storage challenge. New nuclear is just not looking viable. When the majority of the population has a V2G EV, the storage problem will not be an issue. There are 32 million cars in the UK in 2022. If only 1/3 of those are 70kWH V2G-capable EVs connected to the grid that's 700GWH of storage (or 11h for the entire UK at peak winter use) . The point at which that could happen might still be 20-30 years away. But who is going to invest in a nuclear power station when 25 years (or less) after it comes online it will be obsolete because storage has been democratised.

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