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> baseload supplier the cost of 1GW nuclear these days is starting at $6B. For that amount of money you can double/triple diversify between solar and wind, so
by trhway 5y ago
> baseload supplier
the cost of 1GW nuclear these days is starting at $6B. For that amount of money you can double/triple diversify between solar and wind, so you'll always have that 1GW baseload and with much lesser hassle and damage than nuclear.
>its renewable energy neighbours
And nuclear is bad investment from that POV too - 10-20 years down the road after building reliable renewable energy system Germany for example will ask itself "Why we're still supporting the nuclear next door?" France isn't Lithuania of course and will be much harder to force to shut down nuclear, yet i think that neighbors pressure is coming.
- Krssst 5y ago> double/triple diversify between solar and wind How would doubling / tripling help you when there is little wind and clouds for a few days?
- trhway 5y agoClouds in Alger while no wind in Atlantic? Total, so not even 0.5 GW generated among them for days so the storage gets depleted too.
- powerbroker 5y agoGet the Electric Vehicles to 'stock up' on kWh prior to the cloudy/no-wind period. And then induce them not to charge during the cloudy/no-wind period with a 'renewable hiatus' premium, of, say, 50-100% of the normal price of a kWh.
- Krssst 5y agoA Tesla model S seems to be able to store 100kWh. France seems to have ~30M cars. So, 100e330e63600~=1e16 J storage assuming all those cars switch to being Tesla S, and are somehow kept unused. France consumed 529e6/1.17 MHw according to https://www.worldometers.info/electricity/france-electricity/ https://www.worldometers.info/electricity/france-electricity... (in 2016). So, average consumption is 529e12/1.17*3600/365/86400 ~= 50GW. 1e16J / 50GW is 200,000 seconds or 2.3 days. So, not completely unreasonable, but it still seems on the low side (only two days), and I am not sure what the impact would be on car batteries to be continuously charged/discharged. This also assumes cars are left at home to serve the grid. This also assumes electricity consumption does not increase, which seems unlikely (since transportation and heating must switch to electricity at some point).
- redis_mlc 5y ago> baseload You have no idea what baseload means, do you? It means a reliable output at any time of day or in any weather.
- fy20 5y agoAt this stage I expect Lithuania would be very against the EU forcing any other countries to shutdown nuclear power plants in the future. The Belarusian Astravets problem and soaring energy prices mean they are in a very tough place compared to 20 years ago, when they were a net energy exporter. The EU has actually made them much more dependent on Russia, not less.