Re:New nuclear plant at Sizewell set for green light
by onion2k on Saturday October 31, 2020 @02:50AM
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Offshore windfarms cost billions. A 10% overspend is quite significant.
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Re:New nuclear plant at Sizewell set for green light
by pfdietz on Saturday October 31, 2020 @08:19AM
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Much better than a 300% overspend. Any renewable project that is going in that direction would be cancelled. Not only are renewables easier to build in small modules, but the staged build-out allows any problems (like, bad cost estimates) to be identified and fixed (or aborted).
The modular nature of renewables also allows them to be much more resilient in the face of component failure, or in face of construction errors (with the exception of common mode design failures). This means they can be installed with less skilled labor that makes more mistakes.
Renewable fields are akin to server farms w. large numbers of replaceable blades. Nuclear plants are like mainframes.