A first for Canada: New type of nuclear plant opening by 2028

Re:A first for Canada: New type of nuclear plant opening by ... by bbarnett on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @06:35AM (#31246697)

This depends upon location.

I'd have to fill my entire house with batteries, and cover my entire 1 acre of land with panels, to get and store enough power in the winter.

First, there's heating my house when it is -40C out.

Second, there's only 5 hours of sunlight, 4 hours of dusk, and the sun stays low in the sky.

Third, snow storms.

So I'd need enough power collected, during 5 hours of weak sun, to power my house for 19 hours, and heat it.

And that doesn't even account for days in a row of blowing, white out snowstorms sometimes.

Solar is useless in some places as core power.

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Re:A first for Canada: New type of nuclear plant opening by ... by ben_w on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @12:06PM (#31249973)

While this is true when the homes are isolated, in many cases there are power grids, and thus in principle can get their (Arctic circle?) winter power from Mexico or Italy (I don’t know where you live).

I think the small number of exceptions are, even collectively, even long term, not problematic to fuel chemically.

What kind of insulation do you have? I keep expecting aerogel on sites like this.

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