News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on A Double First in China for Advanced Nuclear Reactors. Parent comment

Re:A Double First in China for Advanced Nuclear Reactors by angry_octet on Friday July 06, 2018 @07:29AM (#17470547)
Most megaprojects have mega complexity. In contrast, wind, solar and batteries are scaling by having many units, feeding in to a dumb grid, and don't have the complexity explosion.

Distributed generation and smart loads were invented to add enough complexity (technical, regulatory) to allow them to achieve massive system failure :-)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:A Double First in China for Advanced Nuclear Reactors by CompelTechnic on Friday July 06, 2018 @08:39AM (#17470890)
This is why I think solar can win in the long term (wind already has won) - just scale up linearly. Doing so is geared toward standard assembly line production, standardized installation for the technicians, regardless of scale.
[ Parent | on HN ]