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The ability to import fuels, even if synthetically generated ones, for most of the year doesn't seem like much of a benefit. Currently 14% of the Finnish elect
by jsnell 4y ago
The ability to import fuels, even if synthetically generated ones, for most of the year doesn't seem like much of a benefit.
Currently 14% of the Finnish electricity generation is done using fossil fuels + peat. That should go down as Olkiluoto 3 starts production. The infra you're assuming is not there. So your plan would in practice require building up not only massive amounts of solar power but also similarly massive amounts of new fuel-powered power plants that you'd run with foreign fuel for half the year. That is a really shit plan.
Look, it is obvious you're fanatical about solar power. And I'm sure it is a great fit for the areas where most of humans currently live. But it is an awful fit for a country at the Arctic circle. By making up these fairy tales about how it'd work, you just lose your credibility when talking about the areas of the world you actually know something about.
- ncmncm 4y agoImporting synthetic fuel, at need, at a radically cheaper price than what operating a nuke year-round costs would be rather a large benefit.