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Does anyone know where the turbine blades are being manufactured? Is it China, which also happens to be building more reliable nuclear plants rather than finic
by rationalist 4y ago
Does anyone know where the turbine blades are being manufactured? Is it China, which also happens to be building more reliable nuclear plants rather than finicky wind turbines for their own infrastructure?
- kaliszad 4y agoYou don't actually know how reliable nuclear power plants are in China. They tend to selectively report only stuff that paints them in good light (see COVID-19). Anything bad that is reported/ leaked from China is usually much worse in reality. Seeking truth in a democratic country is often hard enough already. Seeking truth in a somewhat competent dictatorship is much harder.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoYour're right, China installed 34GW of new net nuclear average generation vs. 30GW net of new average wind and solar. ...Oh wait, that number is an entire decade of new nuclear generation vs. one year of wind and solar. The most pessimistic estimates of amount of new VRE coming online this year is within 10% of the entire nuclear fleet (and could go either way).