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So, allow me to say a few things: Nuclear is about replacing baseload - currently coal basically Small nuclear agrees you with about "monsters" Storage at th
by vessenes 8mo ago
So, allow me to say a few things:
Nuclear is about replacing baseload - currently coal basically
Small nuclear agrees you with about "monsters"
Storage at this scale is also not easy
SNR definitely pencil out in today's energy regime.
- ViewTrick1002 8mo agoStorage at that scale already exists in for example California. EDF in France is now crying that renewables are cratering the earning potential of their nuclear fleet, and increasing maintenance costs due to having to adapt. In e.g. Australia coal plants are forced to become peakers, or be decommissioned. We need firming for when the 10 year winter hits. Not an inflexible "baseload" plant producing enormously subsidized electricity when renewables and storage already flood the grid. Which is far above 90% of the time.
- vessenes 8mo agoI agree California is close to getting to renewable + storage only - close in, you know, industrial scale timelines. For current energy usage. California industrial also outsources a lot of the very fast growing datacenter energy usage elsewhere - WA,OR,NY,TX. What winter are you thinking of, out of curiosity? An energy demand winter? Or like an energy price winter? I do not believe we will see that in the next 5 to maybe 10 years. There’s just not enough industrial infrastructure being built to cover anything like the AI energy demands coming soon.