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> Since then we've had a decline in nuclear power and enormous growth in renewables. The only reason we've had decline in nuclear is politics. That's why now G
by illiarian 3y ago
> Since then we've had a decline in nuclear power and enormous growth in renewables.
The only reason we've had decline in nuclear is politics. That's why now Germany is busy burning coal and importing electricity.
> Unit economics prevailed before and theyll prevail again.
Wishful thinking is no substitute for reality. Where are the calculations? That include both the need to ridiculously overbuild renewables and the need for the so-far-nonexistent grid scale storage?
- pydry 3y agoGermany is burning less coal than it used to 10 years ago. Somehow this fact is not only relatively unknown, most people seem to have been led to believe that the exact opposite is true. Nuclear propaganda has always had a bit of a reality problem.
- illiarian 3y ago> Nuclear propaganda has always had a bit of a reality problem. Propaganda cuts both ways. For example, you completely ignore the reality that the sun doesn't shine at night ad that the wind doesn't alway blow. So Germany shut down its nuclear plants an now is burning coal to compensate. Someone literally advocates for rolling blackouts in a sibling thread because renewable generation is intermittent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675328 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675328 This is a good comment describing the current situation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35660884 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35660884