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Re:Nuclear energy is clean by thatfrenchguy on Sunday July 31, 2022 @07:52PM (#32300070)
The other issue with solar/wind of course being that it’s not a suitable electricity source for base load on a grid :-/
Re:Nuclear energy is clean by pfdietz on Sunday July 31, 2022 @11:05PM (#32301488)
Of course it is, with suitable storage. And probably cheaper than nuclear for that.

https://model.energy/

Re:Nuclear energy is clean by winkeltripel on Monday August 01, 2022 @12:35AM (#32302116)
I don't really want wind turbines and solar panels to cover the whole planet. I used that to calculate some numbers for canada, and we'd need about 64k average offshore wind turbines, and 3200 square kilometers of solar farms.
Re:Nuclear energy is clean by PaulDavisThe1st on Monday August 01, 2022 @12:45AM (#32302171)
Canada is comprised of 9,984,670 km^2. I don't think that your 3200 km^2 is going to make that much of an impact.
Re:Nuclear energy is clean by pfdietz on Monday August 01, 2022 @07:31AM (#32304526)
It's a whole 0.5% of the area of farmland in Canada. Think of the children!
Re:Nuclear energy is clean by desindol on Sunday July 31, 2022 @09:31PM (#32300810)
If one more reactor goes down nuclear isn’t either in your country. Germany has to run their load balancing gas plants right now to fix your nuclear fever dreams.
Re:Nuclear energy is clean by MisterMower on Sunday July 31, 2022 @10:31PM (#32301262)
And what is the probability of a reactor going down unexpectedly versus a weather event that causes renewable sources to stop producing?

I think we learned the answer to that question last winter down in Texas.

Re:Nuclear energy is clean by throwawaycuriou on Monday August 01, 2022 @02:09AM (#32302635)
Texan politicians didn't miss a chance to blame wind power for the outages. Unfortunately, those initial lies are still circulating. The primary cause was that the pipes supplying natural gas froze. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/texas-wind-turbines-...
Re:Nuclear energy is clean by MisterMower on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @11:13PM (#32338947)
The frozen pipes were a problem specifically because the wind farms weren’t producing.

Replace the wind farms with nuclear power and the problem goes away.

Re:Nuclear energy is clean by pfdietz on Sunday July 31, 2022 @11:06PM (#32301496)
You back up the renewables with hydrogen-burning combined cycle plants.

A combined cycle plant costs around $1/W. A nuclear power plant costs around $10/W.

Why do you want to spend so much more money than you have to, just so you can split atoms?

Re:Nuclear energy is clean by cycomanic on Monday August 01, 2022 @01:01AM (#32302244)
France currently runs its nuclear plants at 60% due to maintanance and heat. In the last years the amount of times they had to shut down a nuclear power plant due to to warm cooling water has increased. Given where global warming is going that will happen more and more.