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I already addressed why it doesnt help above: >Nuclear power doesnt store energy. It will pump out 2GW all the time whether you need 6GW or you need 0GW. It do
by pydry 3y ago
I already addressed why it doesnt help above:
>Nuclear power doesnt store energy. It will pump out 2GW all the time whether you need 6GW or you need 0GW. It doesn't really help in that respect at all because it can't be scaled up and down. It's not a peaker.
i.e. nuclear power needs peakers or storage too. not as much as solar and wind but it still needs to be paired with peakers or storage.
>build a lot more storage to deal with seasonal and other variations.
This is what makes the most economic sense currently because pumped storage + hydrogen storage + solar + wind <<< nuclear power costs.
Even IF you assumed nuclear power plants could be peakers (they can't) or that Fukushima/Chernobyl events had a probability of 0% (they dont), it would still not make any economic sense to build thrm when those 4 technologies can handle everything together at a much cheaper cost and can be built in 1/2 - 1/20th the amount of time.