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Wind power is intermittent in most regions in Europe, without expensive storage it just extends the lifetime of coal plants that are then used as an indefinite
by wortelefant 3y ago
Wind power is intermittent in most regions in Europe, without expensive storage it just extends the lifetime of coal plants that are then used as an indefinite "backup".
We need to get back to the building times of the 80s in Sweden for nuclear. The korean nuclear plants have the fastest building time these days after the chinese, so no surprise they will be building the new ones in Poland
- pfdietz 3y agoCombinations of solar, wind, batteries, and (crucially) some e-fuel like hydrogen enables a 100% RE grid to work even in Europe, at a cost that new construction nuclear will have trouble matching. Europe, particularly eastern Europe, is one of the last places nuclear makes any sense, but even that is an expiring refuge as renewables and storage continue to improve in the face of massive demand driving them down experience curves.