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Re:Nuclear energy is clean by phyzome on Sunday July 31, 2022 @10:42PM (#32301340)
That voltage stability is electromagnetically coupled to huge chunks of spinning iron. That's your inertia. It buffers voltage spikes. Solar, and surprisingly enough wind as well, do not contribute to this stability. It's one of the big challenges we need to figure out.
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Re:Nuclear energy is clean by phyzome on Monday August 01, 2022 @06:19AM (#32304006)
Actually, this is something I'm not clear on: Why can't we just add free-spinning "generators" to the grid to contribute inertia?
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Re:Nuclear energy is clean by ncmncm on Monday August 01, 2022 @08:31AM (#32305050)
Costs money. And, unnecessary.
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Re:Nuclear energy is clean by phyzome on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @07:50AM (#32317456)
It's pretty clearly necessary to solve. And any kind of energy generation costs money. So I don't think that, unqualified, those are good reasons.
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Re:Nuclear energy is clean by ncmncm on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @09:49AM (#32318421)
Free-spinning wheels generate no energy. Electronics do the job much cheaper.
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