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Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern... by bassman9000 on Thursday August 27, 2020 @10:14PM (#24300756)
Nuclear power has significant and often unpredictable down-times

The availability for wind power in the North Sea is about 50%. Admittedly, lower than 85%

It's not only lower. It's 35% lower. That's a lot of lower.

Aside from hydro, which I very much like, but it has its own limitations, what else comes even close to nuclear?

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/iaea-releases-2019-data...

I'd say nuclear is very much predictable.

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Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern... by bjourne on Friday August 28, 2020 @07:49PM (#24311760)
In statistics, quantity beats quality. Suppose you have 3 nuclear power plants, each with 85% reliability and 10 wind power farms, each with 50% reliability. Assuming statistical independence (obviously a bad assumption, but that is not the point), do you think it is more likely that none of the 3 nuclear power plants generate electricity or none of the 10 wind power farms?
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Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern... by fomine3 on Monday August 31, 2020 @12:45AM (#24328567)
> (obviously a bad assumption, but that is not the point)

It's the point for solar/wind energy.

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