Leave it there for when the sun goes out and the wind dies forever.
Nuke-heads just can't grasp that the plan is to use LESS energy, not twice as much as we're using now.
I wonder if nuclear troglodytes will glow in the dark ?
Except none of that is possible in the Electronics age. If battery cars are the future--hopefully not but if they are--then you need way more power coming from power plants than you need today. All that electronic "stuff" needs power. Homes are using more electricity than they did 30 years ago and far more than 50 years ago.
Regardless, and even if we used less energy overall, wind and solar are still losers. Their efficiency is pathetically low. I've repeatedly pointed out how horrid solar is as a source.
Then there's another problem with you 'thinking.' You can't just turn on and off a nuclear power plant. It takes days to bring one on line and shutting it down takes weeks. Nuclear power plants work best with a steady load. They are normally used for
base loading of the system and provide the bulk of the power. In a rational electrical generation and distribution system nuclear plants would be backed up with gas turbine natural gas "peaking" plants that can come on-line in minutes and be shut down in minutes.
This combination would provide all the electrical power demanded as it is demanded. No need for any storage system. Nuclear provides 70 to 80% of the load demand. The other variable 20 to 30% is made with natural gas.
Right now in the US the average coal fired power plant produces 667 gigawatts (GW) of power at full load. It can do that 24/7 365. You just keep feeding it train loads of coal. Nuclear plants produce 700 to 900 GW 24/7 365 and their fuel that lasts years would handily fit inside a Super Walmart store.
To match that solar that produces a third (1/3) kilowatt per standard 1.5 x 1 yard panel at most, often less, requires a surface area of panels 225 miles on a side. That's over 50,000 square miles. Since solar doesn't work when the sun goes down, part of that is the increase in the number of panels necessary to produce. Since you'd need 12 or so hours of storage battery capacity to cover when the sun isn't shining that'll run you roughly (current battery costs for a 4 hour system is about $400 per KW) 267 billion dollars for 667 GW of battery for 12 hours.
Also, you have to replace those solar panels every 15 to 20 years where a coal or nuclear plant will easily last 50 + years.
If the solar panels were
FREE solar would still be uneconomical. It's that bad. You can't fix it either. The watt density of sunlight is fixed at 1.3 to 1.4 KW per square yard. That isn't going to change. PV cells are limited by the physics and chemistry of the metals and other elements that make them up. Look it up on a periodic table sometime. The best efficiency a PV panel has today is about 20%. That too isn't going to get much, if any, better. That's another wall based on physics and chemistry.
Wind is no different. You can only build a wind turbine so large before you run into problems with strength of materials. They too are very inefficient.
Both also require conversion of DC to AC power, another unnecessary cost avoided by conventional generation.
The "troglodytes" are the science and engineering denying morons on the Environmental Left, like you, Moon.
Let's look at a real case of what you want, and think will work: Germany.
Wind and solar still provide a small fraction of Germany's power needs. These have made Germany's grid unstable enough that their neighbors are disconnecting from it to avoid Germany alternately dumping excess power onto them or stealing power when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing. Germany is decommissioning their six nuclear plants. But the German government found they can't make up that loss with wind and solar so they started building 25 new "clean" coal power plants to replace them.
On top of all that, Germany has spent nearly a trillion dollars on a Smart Grid that isn't close to being finished and has so far only worked mediocrely. Many industries in Germany that have a high electrical demand or a demand for reliable uninterrupted power have started installing UPS power systems and back up diesel generators at their plants to avoid interruptions and fluctuations in the grid.
Because Germany has moved away from natural gas too, people are now heating their homes with pellet stoves. They can't afford electricity to do it. The pellet stoves produce CO2 and ash waste. They are also quickly denuding Central Europe of forest to feet them.
All of this is because the morons on the Left demanded wind and solar be the choices for power production. These clowns didn't have the first clue about the impracticality of that. They're the same sort of retard AOC and her sycophants are. AOC doesn't even get how a garbage disposal works, yet she wants us to adopt her "Green New Deal." If you listen to fools, the mob rules...
It isn't those calling for natural gas and nuclear power that are the idiots. It's those that think solar and wind are "free" and can supply our energy needs, when they can't even tell you how any of that works nor the costs of their desires.
