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And yet fossil fuels are still funded, and even subsidized, instead of nuclear. By all means try and get 100% of power from wind and solar, but we're not there

• Gwypaas 5y ago
  Yes, fossil funding and subsidies should have been removed some 30 years ago. At least. Can't argue with that. Baseload as a term does not exist on the producer side. Simply by chance the cheapest sources of energy were the most inflexible ones. This is coal and nuclear, they therefore got coined as "baseload" power generation. Today they aren't cheapest anymore and unsurprisingly suffer. On the other hand, a base demand exist on the consumer side, that is true. But due to electricity being electricity it does not matter how it's met. Nuclear doesn't produce any other better kind of electricity. That's the gear strength of it, it is fungible.
  • CryptoPunk 5y ago
    Electricity transmission is costly, and that's assuming there's the infrastructure in place to do it, which, more often than not, is not the case. This idea that electricity exists as a fungible resource on a global market is totally false. In practice, switching too quickly to reliance on renewables has resulted in poor people seeing their electricity bills skyrocket and greater demand on coal plants when renewables fall short and nuclear plants are no longer running to provide base power.