What sort of post or comment gets you downvoted the most? Especially if you don’t think it’s bad behavior in the first place, or don’t care. Does not have to be on Lemmy, but we are here… One of the good things about Lemmy IMO is that it’s small enough to see the posts that are unpopular. If you do “Top Day” on most channels, you cash reach the bottom, see what people here don’t like.
As far as comments, attempting to rebut the person who is telling me my post sucks, is what gets me into negative numbers most often. The OP is going to voite it down, of course, and nobody else cares, usually.

  • Thorny_Insight
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    8 months ago

    If I remember correctly the total wind power capacity is around 5000MW but solar is much lower even though it is a viable option here as well excluding the darkest winter months. Even if we had the capacity to store infinite amount of energy there still would need to be an extremely high and diverse amount of production if we were to go 100% to renewables. Even with a million windmills you still couldn’t match demand on calm days and alternatively when it’s windy there would be an insane amount of excess production.

    I’m not against energy storage in any way. The technology is fascinating. It’s just that I don’t see what you’re suggesting as an viable near term solution to the energy needs in my country. We need more nuclear. I don’t agree with the claim that it’s somehow particularly risky. Even less so the more modern plant we’re talking about.

    • andyburke@fedia.io
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      8 months ago

      One of the hallmarks of renewables has been that they are more easily distributed, so you don’t necessarily need big power plants. I think you may also be discounting the fact that renewables are far more distributed than previous forms of power generation. It doesn’t all have to be solved with giant installations and giant energy storage.

      But again, if nuclear is honestly the cheapest option there, it would really surprise me. I just don’t get why so many people argue for this tech they couldn’t possibly use themselves that costs so much money when there are modern options that offer so many compelling benefits that you can distribute throughout the grid (or in big installations, either way!).

      In any case, I catch a lot of downvotes.