Re: AI consortium and the (AI) future with POET
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Sep 22, 2024 03:33AM
fairchijisback: Rainer is probably the best person to talk on the subject but I am totally convinced that Nuclear is required to bridge the gap. It is not an easy subject.
Since you mentioned me here, John, I thought I’d speak up. Yes, nuclear power is the only way to provide a highly industrialized country with reliable, clean and affordable electricity – unless you have hydropower, and enough of it, to meet your needs.
Trying this only with wind and solar, as my own country Germany does, will fail miserably – and already does. You always need a firm power source for those time when the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine, let alone grid stability issues – you know what I am talking about. And if you haven’t got nuclear, you have to go with high-carbon fossil fuels. And that’s what Germany does. It has to have coal and gas-fired plants running and is one of Europe’s dirtiest carbon polluters – while still spending unbelievable amounts of money on the energy transition.
But let me put two things right:
Oh, and in order to maintain the POET context: We have to