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Re:Australia has enough solar, wind storage in pipeline to g... by Tade0 on Thursday March 21, 2019 @09:19AM (#19451941)
Currently nuclear loses on price and opportunity cost with gas + wind, given that it takes 7 years on average to build such a plant.

Also it only functions as baseload - it's a great alternative to coal, but that's about it.

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Re:Australia has enough solar, wind storage in pipeline to g... by merpnderp on Thursday March 21, 2019 @09:36AM (#19452108)
That baseload argument cuts both ways. Solar and wind can only serve as a baseload from 10-2, but only on sunny days, or when the wind blows (but not too hard). There's a reason every country moving to wind and solar is still burning more and more coal. Not everyone is as lucky as N. America to have a near limitless supply of natgas to make up for renewable's huge shortcomings.
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Re:Australia has enough solar, wind storage in pipeline to g... by Brakenshire on Thursday March 21, 2019 @10:58AM (#19453047)
> There's a reason every country moving to wind and solar is still burning more and more coal.

Not the case for the UK.

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