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>You're not from Bavaria, I take it? Here, to this day hunters and shroom gatherers have to scan their produce for radioactivity because of the aftereffect of C

>You're not from Bavaria, I take it? Here, to this day hunters and shroom gatherers have to scan their produce for radioactivity because of the aftereffect of Chernobyl. “I read about a train derailment that killed people so I’ll never take public transit” >The capacity of the NPPs has long since been replaced by renewables. The two sources aren’t fungible unless the renewables are dams. Nuclear provides a reliable base load. Neither solar nor wind can do that. You need storage to make them reliable and that’s not even close to a solved problem.

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mschuster91 3y ago
> The two sources aren’t fungible unless the renewables are dams. Nuclear provides a reliable base load. Neither solar nor wind can do that. That's only a question of a reliable, widespread grid. France, Portugal and Spain have almost consistent wind from the Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea, it's only a question of how much you want to invest into a truly European Grid.
- kortilla 3y ago
  Not just grid, the wind farms need to be massively overbuilt to support a scenario where only one windy coast has to power the entire EU.
  - mschuster91 3y ago
    There's other renewable sources that can be tapped. Running-water hydro provides constant baseload (with the exception of summer when rivers run dry, but there, solar fills the gap), geothermal energy is a massive reserve that's completely constant, biomass (aka burning cow dung and other compost gases) releases CO2 but it's better to have that CO2 than have the fermentation methane release into the atmosphere and you can store the gas in the regular gas grid storage to burn it in times of need, pumped hydro and distributed battery packs / EVs can provide peak regulation power... And in any case: it makes sense to massively over-build wind and solar generation because air and maritime travel will need a massive amount of power-to-liquid synthfuel as there's no way to power either of these using conventional batteries.

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mschuster91 3y ago

> The two sources aren’t fungible unless the renewables are dams. Nuclear provides a reliable base load. Neither solar nor wind can do that. That's only a question of a reliable, widespread grid. France, Portugal and Spain have almost consistent wind from the Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea, it's only a question of how much you want to invest into a truly European Grid.

kortilla 3y ago
Not just grid, the wind farms need to be massively overbuilt to support a scenario where only one windy coast has to power the entire EU.
- mschuster91 3y ago
  There's other renewable sources that can be tapped. Running-water hydro provides constant baseload (with the exception of summer when rivers run dry, but there, solar fills the gap), geothermal energy is a massive reserve that's completely constant, biomass (aka burning cow dung and other compost gases) releases CO2 but it's better to have that CO2 than have the fermentation methane release into the atmosphere and you can store the gas in the regular gas grid storage to burn it in times of need, pumped hydro and distributed battery packs / EVs can provide peak regulation power... And in any case: it makes sense to massively over-build wind and solar generation because air and maritime travel will need a massive amount of power-to-liquid synthfuel as there's no way to power either of these using conventional batteries.