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Re:Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has ... by yodelshady on Friday March 25, 2022 @05:41AM (#30800166)
No, it isn't. It's a colossal example of both complacency at big engineering firms, and wider myopia about climate change.

Nevertheless, the >30-year old nukes still delivered what every single technology you have listed categorically failed to deliver. I have provided ample, repeated evidence of that. They failed and fossils came to the rescue. Repeatedly.

Why should they get even half the subsidy nukes get (which is what they do get), when their output is simply useless.

I've posted numbers. Please, you want to show me storage can be economically done, today, do so. Or admit you can't because it can't. We no longer have time for utopianism.

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Re:Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has ... by pydry on Friday March 25, 2022 @07:18AM (#30800736)
>Nevertheless, the >30-year old nukes still delivered what every single technology you have listed categorically failed to deliver.

This is simply, provably false. They have delivered cheap and green electricity and weaned us off fossil fuels gradually.

Theyre growing very very fast because theyre economic and a good investment. Nuclear is not because it is not.

Throw $4 billion of subsidies at solar, wind and pumped storage and youll get more power when you need it than if you did the same for a nuclear power station.

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Re:Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has ... by yodelshady on Friday March 25, 2022 @06:02PM (#30807437)
> They have delivered cheap and green electricity and weaned us off fossil fuels gradually.

I'm sorry we're just living in fantasy land now.

We're not weaned off fossils. Not even close. That's just a lie.

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Re:Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has ... by pydry on Sunday March 27, 2022 @08:36AM (#30819763)
In the UK solar and wind went from < 5% to 30% in the last 7 years because it's cheap to build. Nuclear's growth has been zero because it's ridiculously expensive.
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Re:Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has ... by yodelshady on Monday March 28, 2022 @04:31AM (#30828465)
180 MW today.
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Re:Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has ... by pydry on Monday March 28, 2022 @10:51AM (#30831061)
https://grid.iamkate.com/ says 4.5 GW or 13% today.
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Re:Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has ... by ncmncm on Friday March 25, 2022 @06:48AM (#30800539)
Subsidizing renewables produces permanent reductions in costs, resulting in net public savings. Nukes have been subsidized forever, and costs have gone only upward.
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Re:Developers of small modular reactors hope their time has ... by yodelshady on Monday March 28, 2022 @05:22AM (#30828742)
There's no savings if there's NO POWER.

150 MW currently.

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