Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future
by Ajedi32 on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @11:54AM
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Not just hundreds of Gigawatts, but also tens of thousands of Gigawatt-hours. Unless you're willing to accept regular black-outs, you need to build enough capacity to account for the occasional long, sustained period of cloudy days with low wind. The cost of that extra necessary-but-rarely-used capacity needs to be factored in to any comparison of wind/solar vs other energy sources.
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Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future
by aidenn0 on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @12:39PM
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It might make more sense to have either fossil-fuels as backups for such times, or for HVDC lines to connect geographically disparate regions (it's always sunny or windy somewhere).
Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future
by carry_bit on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @01:24PM
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As we're seeing from Russia and Europe, depending on someone else means you can find yourself being threatened or actually being cut off.