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The Shidao Bay plant in eastern Shandong province is powered by two high-temperature reactors cooled by gas rather than pressurised water, according to state news agency Xinhua

Think of how many renewables they could have made for all the monies wasted on this.

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[–] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Industry needs high density power. Which renewables cannot provide.

Houses: renewables

Businesses: renewables

Industrial and (some) data centers: nuclear

Otherwise it's going to be: renewables and coal or gas. Those last two are terrible so go nuclear!

A nice summary: https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/the-iron-law-of-power-density-part