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Once in a 10 years rebuilding a nuclear power plant? You are the one missing the point here.
by TheLoafOfBread 4y ago
Once in a 10 years rebuilding a nuclear power plant? You are the one missing the point here.
- ben_w 4y agoHow often something needs to be serviced is a different question to how much it costs each time you do. The installation cost of a battery storage system, spread over the lifetime of that system, is a bit less than the the cost of a nuclear plant spread over the lifetime of the nuclear plant. Adding to that number the cost of a renewable power supply to charge that battery, spread over the lifetime of the power supply, makes it swings and roundabouts.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoYes. Replacing a battery is exactly as hard as building a nuclear reactor. Frequency of replacing parts is precisely the only thing related to cost.
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoOf course, we are rebuilding nuclear reactors every 10 years from ground up. And of course that "just changing few MWh in batteries" is the cheapest part of whole battery storage.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoNo, just digging up a thousand tonnes of uranium and then lugging spent fuel around in several thousand tonnes of copper casks every three to six years. Way easier than recycling a few GWh of batteries every 20 years, or simply using a pumped hydro station.