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Texas, artificially cut off from the wider grid, exhibited its domestic governance failings once again. This has no wider implications for energy policy than th

Texas, artificially cut off from the wider grid, exhibited its domestic governance failings once again. This has no wider implications for energy policy than that grid connectivity covers for multiple sins. Need for fossil generation backing will decline naturally as storage is built out, but will take a long time to go to zero. Pretending otherwise makes bad policy. Building storage without renewable capacity to charge it from would be stupid because charging storage by fossil fuel burning would be monumentally stupid.

dgroshev 4y ago
It is a nice demonstration of an impact of a fairly mild unexpected drop in generation. Renewables, as things stand, are that, all the time, on steroids. You don't need as much storage if you have nuclear and you can't compare the two without accounting for (potentially weeks or months of) storage. "Building out storage" is not an unavoidable expense that just happens automatically, it's a requirement to have a reliable greed that is mostly based on non-dispatchable renewables, and thus a part of their cost. Seeing how you outright ignore this point, I suspect you are arguing in bad faith.
- moloch-hai 4y ago
  Seeing how you are promoting instead a thoroughly dead alternative that no one will ever again spend another cent of their own money on... Good day, sir.
  - dgroshev 4y ago
    You yet again ignored the point and instead appealed to authority. It's also factually false. * UK approving Sizewell C for £20bn https://www.ft.com/content/11ca7193-f7d8-496f-bb90-d3270b2cf874 https://www.ft.com/content/11ca7193-f7d8-496f-bb90-d3270b2cf... * about 60 reactors are being constructed as we speak https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/plans-for-new-reactors-worldwide.aspx https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-fu... * the US just allocated $2.5b to support the demonstration of two advanced U.S. reactors by 2028 (X-energy and TerraPower) https://www.powermag.com/updates-on-five-big-nuclear-energy-developments-power-was-watching-in-2022/ https://www.powermag.com/updates-on-five-big-nuclear-energy-... * just a few days ago NuScale's SMR got approved https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nrc-certifies-first-us-small-modular-reactor-design https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nrc-certifies-first-us-sm...
    - moloch-hai 4y ago
      All public money. NuScale is a particularly egregious example.

dgroshev 4y ago

It is a nice demonstration of an impact of a fairly mild unexpected drop in generation. Renewables, as things stand, are that, all the time, on steroids. You don't need as much storage if you have nuclear and you can't compare the two without accounting for (potentially weeks or months of) storage. "Building out storage" is not an unavoidable expense that just happens automatically, it's a requirement to have a reliable greed that is mostly based on non-dispatchable renewables, and thus a part of their cost. Seeing how you outright ignore this point, I suspect you are arguing in bad faith.

moloch-hai 4y ago
Seeing how you are promoting instead a thoroughly dead alternative that no one will ever again spend another cent of their own money on... Good day, sir.
- dgroshev 4y ago
  You yet again ignored the point and instead appealed to authority. It's also factually false. * UK approving Sizewell C for £20bn https://www.ft.com/content/11ca7193-f7d8-496f-bb90-d3270b2cf874 https://www.ft.com/content/11ca7193-f7d8-496f-bb90-d3270b2cf... * about 60 reactors are being constructed as we speak https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/plans-for-new-reactors-worldwide.aspx https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-fu... * the US just allocated $2.5b to support the demonstration of two advanced U.S. reactors by 2028 (X-energy and TerraPower) https://www.powermag.com/updates-on-five-big-nuclear-energy-developments-power-was-watching-in-2022/ https://www.powermag.com/updates-on-five-big-nuclear-energy-... * just a few days ago NuScale's SMR got approved https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nrc-certifies-first-us-small-modular-reactor-design https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nrc-certifies-first-us-sm...
  - moloch-hai 4y ago
    All public money. NuScale is a particularly egregious example.