> Gas turbines do 16% of nameplate capacity per minute without catching a sweat. 5% per minute isn't particularly extreme. If you keep jumping around with your

> Gas turbines do 16% of nameplate capacity per minute without catching a sweat. 5% per minute isn't particularly extreme. If you keep jumping around with your arguments, nothing is extreme. Your original claim started with claiming cold starts (which most power plants including gas turbines don't do, ever) and that coal and nuclear aren't fast. Nuclear is plenty fast. I never claimed gas power stations were slow, or that they were slower than nuclear. > If you look at table 2.4 on the same page it states that it (the Russian VVER-1200) can do the 5% per second/20% per minute emergency change Let me slowly walk you through that statement: --- start quote --- can do the 5% per second/20% per minute emergency change emergency change emergency --- end quote --- > And that was the point of my footnote: that nuclear plants technically can go faster than 5% but not up and down on a minute-by-minute basis. No idea what your footnote was about, and how it is relevant.