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adgjlsfhk1 on May 13, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Biggest Potential Water Disaster in the United...

powering desalination with nuclear is incredibly dumb. If you have massive desalination infrastructure, it makes way more sense to power it with renewables since they are 5x cheaper, and you can use desalination as a battery (run it when the sun is out/there is wind).

akvadrako on May 13, 2022 [–]

This requires building more desalination plants, since they won't always be running. So it might come out more expensive than nuclear.

adgjlsfhk1 on May 14, 2022 | [–]

renewables have a power factor of greater than 50%, and a nuclear plant is more expensive than a desalination plant.

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