Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power
by stjohnswarts on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @01:59AM
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Solar is great but until you can store a week's worth of backup power while the weather makes demand spike and while clouds block 70% of the sunlight not accounting for snow and ice covering it I think we are going to need fossil fuel unless OR nuclear. Unless you want to see what happened in Texas last week X10
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Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power
by jasonwatkinspdx on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @01:15PM
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The intermittency of renewables was not what happened to Texas. Texas made a conscious choice to build their own isolated grid. Then they failed to invest in winterization of their grid sufficiently. The rolling blackouts were caused by gas turbine plants going offline, though the intermittency of solar and wind in Texas didn't help.