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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 d
by 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 agoSeeing 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 agoYou 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 agoAll public money. NuScale is a particularly egregious example.