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If you think nuclear is dead in the water you haven't really been following where the energy debate is heading these days. Especially in Europe, where we no lon
by u320 4y ago
If you think nuclear is dead in the water you haven't really been following where the energy debate is heading these days. Especially in Europe, where we no longer have the luxury of plugging the holes left by renewables with gas.
- hammock 4y agoWhy can’t you use natural gas in Europe?
- ben_w 4y agoBoycotting one of the bigger suppliers.
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- DFHippie 4y agoOne of the biggest suppliers is boycotting them. Russia has turned off the gas to try to break the European resolve to assist Ukraine.
- ben_w 4y agoAlso true. It's a two-way boycott.
- hammock 4y agoIs that self-inflicted or do they have to boycott it?
- ben_w 4y ago"Have to" is ill defined. On paper they could say "leaving the Soviet union was a terrible idea, we want back in" but many have lived experience of living under soviet (or soviet-allied) rule and hated it. On paper they could give Russia a ultimatum of "withdraw or face open war", but Russia has more nukes and they may well still function. Boycotts are the current choice.
- Gwypaas 4y agoNuclear has a 15-20 year delay from political decision to generating power. Color me surprised if there's still an ongoing energy crisis in Europe by 2037-42.
- Filligree 4y agoThat delay is, itself, mostly due to political reasons. It may be interesting to see what will happen.
- rdevsrex 4y agoWell the Energy Department just approved a new nuclear design for testing. Not sure how long it was in the works. If there is enough money to be made, you better believe it will get done faster that 15 years.
- ncmncm 4y agoHasn't been, yet. The syllogism works the other way too.
- mschuster91 4y ago> Especially in Europe, where we no longer have the luxury of plugging the holes left by renewables with gas. We don't have the luxury to wait on nuclear either. A large part of the current French electricity crisis is "thanks" to the cost and time budget overruns of Flamanville - they had gambled on Flamanville being ready in time to replace the old unreliable clunkers that, surprising nobody, now have massive corrosion issues. The solution is to massively over-build on renewables - wind and solar most obviously as well as trans-continental ultra-high-voltage links, but also biogas plants that convert the millions of tons of cow dung and other bio waste into gas that can then be used during low availability of renewable electricity. On the other side we also desperately need actually smart grids and consumers that can dynamically act based on the power available in the grid.