alt Hacker NewsPeople said that 40 years ago and see where we are today, if people hadn't said that we would have a much cleaner world today. We might have that good and cheap batteries in 20 years, but also possible we wont have that. Would you really wanna bet our planets climate on your gut feeling that batteries will get that good?
> People said that 40 years ago and see where we are today
That it's true today because people worked on it for 40 years? It would've been amazing if more nuclear had been built 40 years ago. But it wasn't and there's nothing you or I can do about it.
> We might have that good and cheap batteries in 20 years
They're already good and cheap. And more like 5 years than 20.
> Would you really wanna bet our planets climate on your gut feeling that batteries will get that good?
It isn't a gut feeling. They'll get better faster than you can build new nuclear because that's what we've seen in the past 20 years. No one's holding nuclear back on pure vibes. Solar + batteries is already beating nuclear and will continue to increase the lead. That's just math. Its true boss fight is fossil fuels and achieving mass electrification.
If anything, when new nuclear does get built eventually, it will benefit from all the progress made on electrification and new transmission and storage capacity.