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The political flame war doesn’t matter. I have a lot of capital allocated towards natural gas, but none to nuclear because the math doesn’t work (see the duck
by jcampbell1 4y ago
The political flame war doesn’t matter. I have a lot of capital allocated towards natural gas, but none to nuclear because the math doesn’t work (see the duck curve). Nuclear is dead on arrival because there is no industry demand for additional base load, regardless of whether it comes from uranium or coal.
- bscphil 4y ago> Nuclear is dead on arrival because there is no industry demand for additional base load, regardless of whether it comes from uranium or coal. What if there is a political demand for phasing out existing coal / gas plants, thereby necessitating new plants to provide base load from some other source?
- jcampbell1 4y agoIntermittent renewables displace the need for any base load. Every solar panel or wind turbine installed makes the economics of nukes worse. Nukes are in no way are a substitute for gas turbines. That is as silly as thinking a locomotive can be used for pizza delivery.
- klabb3 4y ago> Intermittent renewables displace the need for any base load. When you talk about wind and solar you have to specify the region, because it differs wildly. As someone who has watched exactly those ideas fail to the point of crisis in north-central Europe, I truly hope you’re talking about some other unrelated place. Note that there is not only the daily cycle, but the seasonal one, in particular in cold regions. Baseload usually refers to the lowest demand during the day, so in those terms the baseload changes dramatically over the year. This is something that nuclear can adjust to perfectly fine.