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Nuclear doesn't scale quickly. It already adapts from 4GW to 7GW in Spain, but it does it slowly and ahead of weather conditions. What is needed is more co-loca
by ktzar 2y ago
Nuclear doesn't scale quickly. It already adapts from 4GW to 7GW in Spain, but it does it slowly and ahead of weather conditions.
What is needed is more co-located battery storage, and more gravity (solid or water) storage.
- jorvi 2y agoNuclear is never meant to scale, you want to run the plant at 100% as much as possible to recoup costs. It is baseload power and you deal with peaks using peaker plants and batteries.
- binary132 2y agoMaybe I don’t understand the requirement, but can’t a constant-rate supply provide stored power for peak demand and support baseline consumption off-peak?
- adrianN 2y agoIf you build all the storage and peak capacity anyway you might as well use renewable power to fill the storage, it’s cheaper than nuclear.