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Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by tchaffee on Friday October 14, 2022 @07:12PM (#33209882)
I read the source and you are wrong. Here is the official website and I quote:

"This is a project that will generate up to 350MW of clean renewable electricity to power over 91,000 homes"

https://www.clevehillsolar.com/

Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by s1artibartfast on Friday October 14, 2022 @08:44PM (#33210448)
Which is misleading..
Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by tchaffee on Friday October 14, 2022 @09:58PM (#33210881)
It isn't misleading.
Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by s1artibartfast on Saturday October 15, 2022 @03:13AM (#33212553)
It is to me. "Up toβ€œ is weasel language. It might support 100k homes for a few moments on an ideal day
Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by tchaffee on Saturday October 15, 2022 @08:55AM (#33214360)
Or according to the math in another comment, over 350k homes on long sunny summer days. Is it weasel language that the new nuclear towers in question here didn't include the 1 in ~200,000 calculated chance of disaster due to earthquake in their press releases?

Considering this solar instalation is a for-profit venture in cloudy UK and will reduce carbon output without subsidies, I'm calling it a win whether it powers 1000 houses or 350,000.

Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by delroth on Saturday October 15, 2022 @12:14AM (#33211691)
You skipped the critical "up to" part when re-quoting this in your previous message. The capacity factor is what determines how close the average is to that theoretical maximum. With 10.8%, the answer is "not close at all".
Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by tchaffee on Saturday October 15, 2022 @12:50AM (#33211849)
So far zero people have given a source showing that the claim of powering 91,000 homes is an outrageous lie. Zero sources is "not close at all" to showing that the actual output is going to be so wildly different from what every source says will be the actual, not theoretical, output.
Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by ac29 on Saturday October 15, 2022 @01:47AM (#33212093)
350MW / 91000 homes = 3.8kW / home (24/7), which seems very very high.
Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by delroth on Saturday October 15, 2022 @03:32AM (#33212645)
Again, the claim on the website is "has the potential to power over 91,000 homes". "up to", "has the potential", etc. But let's do some quick back of the envelope maths.

91,000 homes would be about 91,000 * 3,000 kWh / year = 273 TWh / year. You need an average of 31 MW over a year to produce this, which roughly tracks 350 MW with ~10% capacity factor. So over a year this seems to be correct.

On a day to day basis however the project only includes 700 MWh of storage. That's about 24h of the electricity consumption of 91,000 homes. A single cloudy winter day and those batteries are empty. So if you look at shorter time periods than a full year there's a huge variation in how many households can actually be reliably powered by such an installation. It's likely somewhere between 1,000 (several days of cloudy winter) and 350,000 homes (sunny summer).

Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by tchaffee on Saturday October 15, 2022 @12:05PM (#33215955)
Thanks - that's the best explanation I've seen so far.

> It's likely somewhere between 1,000 (several days of cloudy winter)

How do you figure? Solar technology is moving so rapidly you can't even look at the efficiency of the panels from a few years ago to do the math. Is the 1,000 number a guess or did you do the math for the 900,000 some panels they will have at that site?