Gwypaas

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by Gwypaas 3y ago
The other side is, how many QALYs do you get from the at least $150 billion we are spending to clean up Fukushima?
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Separate primary energy from useful energy. An ICE car is 20-25% thermally efficient while BEVs are 90%.
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Siemens sold their nuclear business in 2011. The last 12 years are completely on the French. When talking about nuclear power it seems like always someone else is the bogeyman.
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
When we find a systemic risk across the industry, like the requirement for independent core cooling after Fukushima, we should just roll with it and accept it? Tsunamis do not happen everywhere, but the regulators found the risk to be syste
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Last week EDF was fully renationalized. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/french-utility-giant...
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Hugely subsidized by the federal government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear... Compare the $15 billion funded by the industry with Fukushima looking to cost at least $150 billion to clean
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Lets add Flamanville 3 to the "experience" graph in the article. The only reason it gets pushed through is for France to have an industrial base enabling nuclear submarines, carriers and weapons. https://imgur.com/
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Or just falsified certificates and used opaque accounting methods, all while the regulator sat on double chairs. > In November 2012 it was discovered that over 5,000 small components used in five reactors at Yeonggwang Nuclear Power Plan
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
> Variable renewable generation should be priced differently from non-variable fossile free generation. Some of the largest costs in grid infrastructure comes from the requirements when nuclear reactors trip.
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
The problem is not ramping once, it is ramping repeatedly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_poison
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
I think what you are missing from this discussion is that both renewables and nuclear require dispatchable power to fill the gaps. If storage is "impossible" then a nuclear grid is impossible unless you overbuild it leading to c
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
I think what you are missing from this discussion is that both renewables and nuclear require dispatchable power to fill the gaps. If storage is "impossible" then a nuclear grid is impossible unless you overbuild it leading to c
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/a-100mw-solar-far...
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
> This means you cannot free-market renewables unless with massive subsidies, or with artificially created market rules (like the current 'merit order' in the EU, which stifles coal and gas but nuclear too in an unfair manner)
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Of course, if someone puts up the money and eats the loss you get cheap electricity. The problem is, someone has to eat the loss. People proposing nuclear power generally have no answer regarding who this "someone" is rather than
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
> I could argue that nuclear power isn’t that expensive when I can buy nuclear power at retail for 9 cents per kWh, but that isn’t really an interesting point. Paid-off nuclear plants are in the same range as new built renewables in cost
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
> Or more specifically, why couldn't you convert any baseload plant into a "flexible supply" plant by adding storage? Cost. New built nuclear costs $0.12 - 0.2/kWh [1], already completely uncompetitive. Now add storag
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Nationalized last week due to the hole they dug for themselves using nuclear power. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/french-utility-giant...
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/levelized-cost-of-e...
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
> why would that make baseload unnecessary instead of profitable It is an argument hinging on cost. The cost for new built renewables are in the range of what existing paid off nuclear and fossil plants cost in operations and maintenance
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
> Because a NPP wouldn't be run just for backup but continuously. Let's assume the 1 GW fossil plant runs a mere 3 weeks per year. That's a capacity factor of 0.058 and it'd generate 504 GWh per year. But then the nuc
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
$5M a year, to be in standby during the winter, easily converted to synthetic oil if carbon prices ever becomes prohibitive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlshamn_Power_Station Which nuclear plant did you want to fin
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
> The missing element here is the fact that independently of what an individual electricity customer (private/commercial/..) chooses to do, the government/burocracy still ultimately mandates for grid operators, utilities a
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Power grids operate like marginal cost markets. Why would I as a consumer buy more expensive nuclear power when abundant renewables are available? That is why the comment started with, (knowing you are not the same person as GP): > I thi
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Rustdoc supports conceptual documentation quite well, including testing the example code. A specialized page is better, but the pareto principle applies. See the Clap documentation: https://docs.rs/clap/latest/clap
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Not true. They use hyper optimized two stroke diesel engines. Cruise ships, RORO, off-shore supply ships and vessels with similarly dynamic operating profiles have started to use diesel electric. Also starting to employ batteries to handle
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
See the hydrogen ladder for what can use synthetic fuels compared to hydrogen as a feedstock. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/clean-hydrogen-ladder-v40-mic...
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding how power grids work. They are generally not monopolistic markets anymore. The problem is that renewables and nuclear are economically incompatible. They compete for the slice that is the che
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
Let me introduce you to the CLOUD act, which multiple times have been ruled to be fundamentally incompatible with GDPR. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
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by Gwypaas 3y ago
I have never argued to close existing plants as long as they are safe and economical? Nice strawman you are arguing. Simply take Germany, replaced both nuclear and black coal with renewables. That is what quite small subsidies managed on a

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