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Looking at a single plant isn't very interesting. Solar and wind are fundamentally more distributed so you're comparing apples to oranges. That distributed natu
by audunw 3y ago
Looking at a single plant isn't very interesting. Solar and wind are fundamentally more distributed so you're comparing apples to oranges. That distributed nature is both a good thing and a bad thing. Having just a few nuclear reactor go down at the same time in a single region can be problematic, as France recently experienced. Of course there are costs/upgrades associated with making large share of renewables viable at all, but those come with a more distributed and resilient solution.
If you want to compare impact on actual energy generation, look at the growth in total net numbers:
The largest rate that nuclear ever grew was around ~200TWh for some years in the 80s.
Solar grew by ~300TWh from 2021 to 2022. Wind grew by ~200TWh. And the growth rate is still increasing exponentially.
For reference the world population grew from ~5 to ~8billion from the 80s until now, if you want to take that into account when comparing the growth rates.