Why Small Modular Reactors Can’t Compete with Renewable Energy

Re:Why Small Modular Reactors Can’t Compete with Renewable E... by Chanticleer on Thursday January 19, 2023 @04:48PM (#34446117)

Take away the subsidies and see how long that lasts. Where I live the solar panels get covered in snow every winter. Yet the power company won't even hire teenagers to clean them off. They stay that way until the snow melts generating zero watts of electricity in the meantime.

It's obvious they only find renewables valuable for the subsidies, not the energy (what there is of it) they produce.

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Re:Why Small Modular Reactors Can’t Compete with Renewable E... by Schroedingersat on Friday January 20, 2023 @12:21AM (#34449555)

You need some new lies, these ones wore out.

Subsidy free PV is cheaper than marginal costs of thermal generation in an ever growing region, and panels are reaching cost parity with roofing and facade materials.

Snow also doesn't sit on a panel that is vertical and being used as a facade or fence (or just sitting in a paddock or field improving yields by reducing wind damage).

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