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> 7 of these could power an entire country, 24/7 ...if you continue to heat with gas, drive on petrol, fly on petroleum... I don't want to be the party pooper
by Aachen 5y ago
> 7 of these could power an entire country, 24/7
...if you continue to heat with gas, drive on petrol, fly on petroleum...
I don't want to be the party pooper but that renewable energy has to cover more than current electricity consumption does get overlooked continuously. Less by governments than by the media and general public, thankfully, but still.
- p_l 5y agoIt's IMO an often overlooked reason to combine nuclear with renewables, and instead of looking at scaling down energy usage to match renewables' intermittent nature, design for overproduction and push it into easy to switch on electrolysers to provide green hydrogen feedstock for steel production, fuels for systems that can't depend on batteries, even CO2-neutral syntin for aviation and space where batteries don't have the density or just don't work.
- gpm 5y agoAnd have no redunancy whatseoever, and if this is like most nuclear plants have no need to quickly spin up or down in response to load changes, and probably the math is done by averaging power usage, so only if you can somehow shift a ton of power usage away from prime time. But it is a lot of power.