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>...China is currently 2% nuclear Do you have a source for that? According to wikipedia it would look to be at least 50% higher than that: >...Nuclear power
by opo 8y ago
>...China is currently 2% nuclear
Do you have a source for that? According to wikipedia it would look to be at least 50% higher than that:
>...Nuclear power contributed 3% of the total production in 2015, with 170 TWh,[5] and was the fastest-growing electricity source, with 29% growth over 2014.[6] Nuclear generation increased again in 2016 to 213 TWh, a 25% increase,[7] and in 2017 to 246 TWh, a 15% increase.[8] China ranks fourth in the world in total nuclear power capacity installed, and third by nuclear power generated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China
>...that leads people in this discussion to poo-poo solar as miniscule and irrelevant.
I haven't seen anyone here saying that solar is "miniscule and irrlevant".
- beat 8y agoDon't remember... I looked it up the other day as a data point in a discussion of the lack of nuclear power penetration in the market. (I was arguing against the popular idea that the limiting factor on nuclear is the cost of those liberal treehugger regulations, by pointing out that neither Russia nor China have significantly more, despite their disdain for environmentalism.) I was kind of shocked by the numbers, actually. Russia and the US are basically equal in nuclear output percentage-wise, but China lags far behind. If my numbers were dated even a few years, China is probably doing better, due to current crash efforts to scale up nuclear power. Still, 3% isn't exactly huge market penetration.