ViewTrick1002

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by ViewTrick1002 2mo ago
Which quickly becomes politically untenable when a large part of the voters either have their own distributed renewables and storage or benefit from lower electricity prices.
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by ViewTrick1002 2mo ago
The world isn’t building nuclear power. It’s simply too slow to build and expensive to be relevant.
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by ViewTrick1002 2mo ago
That is legacy coal plants. The ones China are building are specifically built to complement renewable while keeping the energy security domestic.
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by ViewTrick1002 3mo ago
> The argument I am making is that the competition ceases to be interesting because the US doesn't get to field its best squad on account of a highly controversial on-field decision (itself downstream of a mis-application of VAR). I
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
Which is a metric having one source throughout all weather, coupled with 2018 battery storage as per the study showcased in the blog. Not sure what the relevancy is. Here, a modern article modeling "System LCOE". In other words, t
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
Ignoring that the last time Ontario attempted to build nuclear power the utility went into bankruptcy forcing the public to take on an absolutely enormous stranded debt.
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
You mean like this Australian coal plant forced to become a peaker or be decomissioned? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-13/australian-coal-plant... Yes. That is the issue. How do you suggest the nuclear plants
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
I love that you now deflect to off-shore wind subsidies. Not daring to face onshore wind, solar or storage. Followed by again complaining about 2010 solar being expensie. To absolutely no ones surprise. In Australia CSIRO assuming a status
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
And what happens to a nuclear plant that is essentially only fixed costs when their capacity factor craters due to renewable competition? Followed by attacking the author rather than the context, followed by a "what about". You tr
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
Exactly? We are removing renewable subsidies all over the world because they aren't needed anymore? In Germany the recent solar renewable subsidies are lower than market price for their electricity, but it offers longterm stability for
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
In Israel or the ”lebensraum” in Southern Lebanon?
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
You do realize that nuclear power and renewables fundamentally compete for the same slice of the market: The cheapest and most inflexible. Due to renewables having zero fuel cost they win this handily. Which now also extends to when storage
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
Ahhh. The magical, ”just restart”, handwaving away all issues. You do realize that the nuclear lobby group found the easiest reactors to restart were in the north? Which is already constrained by an oversupply of renewables and limited tran
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
Why are you unable to look forward? I see a wall of text complaining about the past. Again. Are you suggesting that Germany would be better off by keeping their current emissions until the mid ~2040s waiting for horrifyingly expensive new b
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
No. It is trying to reframe the cost question in a way that laymen don’t understand. For anyone understanding economics it’s an admission of how far you need to twist the numbers to just make it horrifyingly expensive. The OPEX calculated i
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
You do realize that trying to smear the costs across almost 100 years is an admission in how horrifyingly expensive new built nuclear power is? And you do realize that across such a lifespan essentially the entire nuclear plant except the p
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
Always the laser focus on Germany. Are you suggesting that Germany would be better off by keeping their current emissions until the mid ~2040s waiting for horrifyingly expensive new built nuclear power to come online? Who cares if the emerg
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
Always the false comparisons. Please do tell me the expected capacity factor of these biomass plants, even if 18 cents per kWh is correct, after renewables, storage, hydro if available and existing nuclear plants with 80 year LTOs do the h
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
Why are you this entire time avoiding official sources? Is it because you know the narrative you push is revionist history? https://www.auditor.on.ca/en/content/annualreports/arreports... A near 1 cent per kW
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
That’s an extremely rosy picture not aligned with reality. You can’t compare it with a house mortgage. They had X in earning potential in a set time frame. The debt accumulated was X + Y. After the restructuring the public were left as bagh
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
It was a government owned utility, it couldn’t go bankrupt in the traditional sense since it has taxpayer backing. But its finances were completely underwater with no way out due to the debt from nuclear construction. After the breakup the
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
Last time Ontario built CANDU’s the utility went into bankruptcy and the taxpayers still haven’t paid off that debt.
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
Mythical Gen IV reactors? Without even existing prototypes?
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
Well. It is not cheap. Each new built large scale reactor needs tens of billions in subsidies. Money which could have multiple times larger effect, in a fraction of the time, if invested in renewables and storage.
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
And now France target 2038 at the earliest for the first reactor in the EPR2 fleet. With a 11 cent per kWh CFD and interest free loans, summing to over 20 cents per kWh. It is easy to dream about what could have been half a century ago, but
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
Now Ontario wants to double the electricity bills to finance its nuclear refurbs and new builds. https://reneweconomy.com.au/ontario-utility-wants-to-double-...
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
Vastly slower. China is on one hand building enough renewables to soak up the entire grid expansion and displace fossil fuels. On the other hand their nuclear share is declining. It peaked at 4.7% in 2021 and is today down to 4.3%. Entirely
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
Meaning the solution for cheap nuclear power is cheating a corruption. https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/04/22/136020/how-greed...
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
The real benefit is being able to use a cheaper, but good enough, model with a specific system prompt dedicated to that task.
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by ViewTrick1002 4mo ago
Solar has also overtaken fossil gas. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/renewables...

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