5 ms·
I'm afraid you'd have to research this youself, if you wish to really understand. Current designs of PWR reactors are about 1000-1200 MWe, constant, and not re
by lstodd 7y ago
I'm afraid you'd have to research this youself, if you wish to really understand.
Current designs of PWR reactors are about 1000-1200 MWe, constant, and not really throttable. This makes them the best baseline supply one can wish for, for a comparably meager investment once the idiotic regulation premium is subtracted.
If we had bulk energy storage it would have been so much cheaper to just pump it with electricity from nukes than that from wind or solar.
Since we don't have the storage tech, the question is moot.
Wind or solar is useless for the grid, period.
- ncmncm 7y ago> Wind or solar is useless for the grid, period. That must come as an awful shock to everyone already driving their grid with increasing fractions of wind and solar.
- lstodd 7y agoAnd it does come as such.
- ncmncm 7y agoVery gradually, evidently.
- lstodd 7y agoA comfy, nice, slowly creeping death of a grid might be preferrable to some. Problem is, when the grid fails it's not like you can throttle down the load. Too late for that. It just goes out.
- ncmncm 7y agoCuriously, with all the grids taking wind and solar power, this has not happened. It's almost as if the operators of power grids have engineers on staff who have figured out how to keep them up, and do.
- lstodd 7y agoYeah, well. Engineering keeps figuring out how to keep reliance on solar/wind low enough so as for the blackouts to not happen. It's engineering, you know. Keeping politics from breaking things. Keeps getting harder to do though.