mpweiher

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Taiwan may restart nuclear power plant in 2028, minister says(energyconnects.com)
40 points by mpweiher 10mo ago|20 comments
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
2022. My kind of humor. Until March of 2023, decreasing the nuclear share was the law in France. The law said that the nuclear share was to be decreased to below 50%. In addition, the absolute capacity of nuclear power was not allowed t
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
Tell that to the Spaniards.
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
Exactly! For example, French nuclear capacity factors are currently rising. One reason, as far as I can tell, is that they can now use intermittent renewables for at least some of the peak load, meaning they don't have to ramp their n
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
>> 2) Vogtle is Lazard's ONLY source of data for new nuclear > Adding Flamanville 3, Hinkley Point C, the proposed EPR2 fleet, Virgil C. Summer ... ...doesn't broaden the data on which you base your conclusions nearly en
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
Er, no it won't. https://energybadboys.substack.com/p/the-baseload-solar-beat...
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
Comparison: 1. France decarbonized their electricity sector in 15 years. Cost was €228 billion. 2. Germany has been trying and failing to decarbonize their electricity sector for the last 20+ years, the "Energiewende". Cost so f
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
In fact, Lazard themselves are very aware that their numbers are not representative for nuclear (as indicated by the footnote) and they themselves are very bullish on nuclear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16HVh_Fx6LQ “We
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
I agree with your last 4 paragraphs 100%. The framing of an either/or situation is one that renewables advocates (commonly) make, it is not shared by nuclear advocates. Almost all industrialized nations are doing both.
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Wendelstein 7-X sets World record for long plasma triple product(euro-fusion.org)
3 points by mpweiher 10mo ago|2 comments
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
This is completely false. Nuclear plants can and do ramp up quickly, thought not from/to 0, but that's generally not necessary. And they provide grid stability by having rotating masses on the grid, and thus combine pretty nicely
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
> [UK quadrupling target] That was the 2050 target from the last government. Yes. The only criticism the new labor government had of the previous government's nuclear policy was them not getting enough done: "Starmer hits out
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
It was 10% before, the recent drops in fleet capacity factors are explained by cannibalization/curtailment and the best locations already gone.
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
Strangely enough, I happen to be one bringing facts, whereas you bring the strong opinions backed by...your strong opinions.
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
Germany: the country with World’s Dumbest Energy Policy https://www.wsj.com/articles/worlds-dumbest-energy-policy-11... Yep, the Gas that was needed due to ... the World's Dumbest Energy Policy. https:/&#x
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
Nuclear power is dispatchable, unlike renewables. Giving a preference to intermittent renewables is not a law of nature, but a rule that is irrational and needs to be removed. Denmark is just now hitting problems with their wind strategy,
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
Nothing man-made is perfect, not even nuclear. But even with the two big accidents, nuclear is the safest form of energy generation we have. By far. The actual safety is almost entirely unrelated to the fears people have. There is even a
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
That Tsunami also knocked out most of the Tsunami walls it encountered, because it was so much bigger than expected. Nevertheless, a nearby power plant of the same design survived a slightly higher crest than at Fukushima unscathed and eve
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
I asked you where you were getting the 18 cents/kWh hour from. Which you did not answer. And then you accuse me of referencing unsourced statistics and lying. Hmm... The 6.5 years figure is from here: https://www.sustainab
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
Shifting goal posts.
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
In Germany it has now dropped to 8%.
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
> China has been scaling back and delaying their nuclear program in favor of renewables since Fukushima. Not "has". "Had". The whole world held their breath after Fukushima. Now that everybody knows that nothing rea
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
Funny, the Finns are super happy with their "uneconomic" nuclear reactors. Current approval rating for nuclear is now 81%, up from 77% last year. The UK is so disappointed by their HPC project (which is the most expensive nuclear
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
Intermittent renewables have capacity factors in the 10-20% range. So divide by 5. 34 nations have committed to tripling nuclear capacity, including the US, China, France, the UK and many others. And they are acting on this as well. The
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
The US delays with the Vogtle AP-1000s (the only recently completed US build) were extremely atypical. First, it was a FOAK design. Which always takes longer to build, it is a prototype. Second, the nuclear build know how in the nuclear
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
Since you use China as a comparison for solar: China builds 1.4GW nuclear power plants in 5 years for $3.5 bn. And of course the capacity factor for PV is about 10%, so you need 10x the capacity to get the same output even on average. Nev
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
Where are you getting 18 cents/kWh? Lazard? Anyway, even if that were correct numbers, it would misleading on several fronts, as the only new western reactors were unrepresentative FOAK builds, and also troubled beyond just regular FO
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
An initial much stronger increase in renewables is a logical an unavoidable consequence of what I described. The increase in renewable production needs to be 4x greater initially, because of the longer life of nuclear plants. Queueing th
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
You actually need energy even when the sun doesn't shine. And you are incorrect: renewables are not competitive without heavy subsidies and preferential treatment, such as being allowed to shift the cost of their intermittency onto th
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by mpweiher 10mo ago
Since the capacity factor is so much lower, 10x in capacity just about matches the energy production of nuclear. Never mind the dispatchable power. And since nuclear power plants last about 4x longer than renewables, you actually have to i

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