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Renewables plus nuclear should be the way of the future. Nuclear power when renewables are not available and some sort of storage (pumped hydro, heat in salt et
by dyauspitr 3y ago
Renewables plus nuclear should be the way of the future. Nuclear power when renewables are not available and some sort of storage (pumped hydro, heat in salt etc) when renewables are active.
- h0l0cube 3y agoNuclear is great as a baseload, but as wind and solar reach overcapacity, peakers will be more useful to react to changes in weather. But by then, energy storage will be economical and scalable enough to obviate gas and coal for this purpose. Renewable takeover is a foregone conclusion at this point. That said, from a conservation point of view, nuclear is something I’m in favor of
- dyauspitr 3y agoIt’s what I was trying to get across. Use nuclear where you would use a peaked plant and then direct the nuclear entry into storage when renewables are active.
- h0l0cube 3y agoMy point is that nuclear isn’t suitable for peaking, and given the lead times and capex for building new plants, and the rapidly declining price of storage, it makes them an undesirable financial investment especially when you consider that renewable overcapacity will shift the need from baseload to backup. The better bet is storage, with gas peakers tiding us over for the next 1-2 decades before they are obsolete too