Re:Germany to Rethink Nuclear Shutdown as Energy Crisis Deepens
by dane-pgp on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @12:19PM
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> a second grid worth of gas plants which we turn on once every two weeks
What if it just requires keeping the existing plants around, and turning them on for 6 hours every 8 weeks, for example?
Yes, that's not 100% renewable, but it gets electricity production to 99% renewable, and that other 1% you can mitigate by doing power-to-gas / direct-air-capture.
Re:Germany to Rethink Nuclear Shutdown as Energy Crisis Deepens
by _ph_ on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @11:50AM
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The same what I am doing when all the nuclear power plants are down.
In fact this isn't going to happen and there needs to be enough fungible capacity both internally and in the European grid. Right now, France is highly dependent on the grid, as 50% of the nuclear plants are down.
Great, so what do we do when the sun isn't shining, the wind isn't blowing and the dams are empty? Just have a second grid worth of gas plants which we turn on once every two weeks for shits and giggles?