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Part of the pro-nuclear 'lobby' seems to be people who can't handle that wind and solar are less predictable. So they create horror stories where the lights go
by phicoh 4y ago
Part of the pro-nuclear 'lobby' seems to be people who can't handle that wind and solar are less predictable.
So they create horror stories where the lights go out when there is no wind in the middle of the night in winter. And then nuclear has to save the day.
Any kind of storage is immediately dismissed as infeasible or too expensive.
The make it extra scary, this article also introduces importing electricity as really bad. Without any kind of argument why just a single number of how much is imported shows how bad it is.
This way, shutting down a nuclear plant in Germany can be made extra scary because of a few neighboring countries that import electricity.