Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will be built

Re:Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will ... by froh on Saturday October 15, 2022 @04:15AM (#33212872)

short term weather forecasts are amazingly accurate. this allows us to deliberately "extend" the "range" of buffer storage. and even today in some situations some energy intense heavy industries have to pause production for a few hours if there is a lack of energy supply.

It's a political problem, not a technical one, and we do not, absolutely not have to build up new parallel peaker capacity. we can simply keep select plants alive.

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Re:Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will ... by golem14 on Saturday October 15, 2022 @10:09PM (#33220481)

Figuring out how much extra capacity is needed still needs to be done.

Simply stating that no new peaker plants are needed "because storage capacity will be there" is a bit too simplistic.

I'd be glad if that's the case, but I'm not convinced it's actually true.

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Re:Sweden’s incoming cabinet says new nuclear reactors will ... by froh on Sunday October 16, 2022 @02:47AM (#33221601)

right we have 7 years to figure this out for 80% renewables and 17 years to figure it out for close to 100%

it took 1 year to build and start operation of giga Shanghai, and not much longer for giga Berlin.

it's a political challenge, not a technical one.

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