Re:The US can reach 90% clean electricity by 2035 without in...
by specialist on Saturday June 20, 2020 @09:41AM
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"But here are some problems."
The opportunities are insurmountable.
"...a very low resiliency because it depends on national grid."
Grid will become massively decentralized. Transmission costs are already greater than production costs in many systems, a trend that will continue.
We'll get resiliency "for free".
Others have already commented on demand shifting. Additionally, producers will innovate, creating new "products" to meet unique customer demands. Like colocation.
"...nukes and nat gas will not be competitive 99%"
Current nukes must be propped up for as long as possible, stopgap until renewables can overtake.
We'll definitely need new nuke options, like small modular reactors (micro reactors) and reprocessing. (My future perfect is traveling wave reactors, but that's a long ways off.)
The opportunities are insurmountable.
"...a very low resiliency because it depends on national grid."
Grid will become massively decentralized. Transmission costs are already greater than production costs in many systems, a trend that will continue.
We'll get resiliency "for free".
Others have already commented on demand shifting. Additionally, producers will innovate, creating new "products" to meet unique customer demands. Like colocation.
"...nukes and nat gas will not be competitive 99%"
Current nukes must be propped up for as long as possible, stopgap until renewables can overtake.
We'll definitely need new nuke options, like small modular reactors (micro reactors) and reprocessing. (My future perfect is traveling wave reactors, but that's a long ways off.)
We need to phase out natural gas asap.