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> extra steps.

Those extra steps are crucial, as they massively dilute the output and make it weather/daylight and seasonally dependent.

Intermittent renewables produce at least an order of magnitude more waste than nuclear reactors, be they fusion or fission.



> Those extra steps are crucial, as they massively dilute the output and make it weather/daylight and seasonally dependent

and leave the waste on a far away star


How are you defining waste here?

Nuclear reactors can’t adjust production rapidly and require peaker plants. I don’t have to squint to see how this is also solved by grid scale storage.




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