The world needs nuclear power and we shouldn’t be afraid of it

Re:The world needs nuclear power and we shouldn’t be afraid ... by kolinko on Saturday October 24, 2020 @03:44AM (#24877632)

You didn’t seem te read the parent’s comment fully.

What he suggested is that we use the overprovisioning to generate methane or hydrogen so it propells us through a few weeks of no wind or sun.

So, instead of 1GW of Nuclear you have 2GW of solar/wind + 1GW electrolysis and 1GW of hydrogen capacity.

This gives you better network stability than nuclear and the cost are or will soon be lower than the nuclear

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Re:The world needs nuclear power and we shouldn’t be afraid ... by throw0101a on Saturday October 24, 2020 @09:25AM (#24879069)

What is the efficiency loss at each of these steps to get methane/hydrogen, and then the efficiency loss to convert these materials back to electricity?

I have no issue with using renewables per se; I'm just skeptical about basing the entire system on them:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor

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Re:The world needs nuclear power and we shouldn’t be afraid ... by andromeduck on Monday October 26, 2020 @05:10AM (#24894157)

And what's the leakage rate during production, transportation and combustion? Methane is 80x more potent than co2.

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