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Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper by olau on Monday September 04, 2017 @02:01PM (#15169814)
Demand is not stable so you still need energy storage or something else to fill the peaks. The only alternative is not running the plant at full capacity, which will make it even more expensive.

Less space: that's true. But you still need a fair bit of space to the nearest city. :)

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Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper by Caveman_Coder on Monday September 04, 2017 @06:06PM (#15171123)
That is not "the only alternative" in practice. If you're in a market (which most companies owning nuclear generation are) you'd sell your excess energy, you wouldn't lower the output of your nuclear generation resources.
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Re:Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper by RivieraKid on Monday September 04, 2017 @03:17PM (#15170280)
Yeah, but with nuclear you only have to deal with demand variability, not supply variability.
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