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Wind and solar power is good. But you can’t turn them on by demand though, which is why nuclear and coal is still widely used. [Slightly edited.]
by cpach 7y ago
Wind and solar power is good. But you can’t turn them on by demand though, which is why nuclear and coal is still widely used.
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- 7952 7y agoWell coal and nuclear tend to take a long time to turn on. Responding to demand is more the role of gas.
- cpach 7y agoNot sure what you mean here. Where I live (Sweden) I don’t believe we rely on gas for our energy needs.
- mdorazio 7y agoNuclear power is almost always used only to provide baseload power to the grid. In Sweden's case, it looks like you're using biofuel power plants [1] for demand following uses when solar + wind can't keep up. [1] https://sweden.se/society/energy-use-in-sweden/ https://sweden.se/society/energy-use-in-sweden/
- regularfry 7y agoMore to the point, nuclear power generates when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing.