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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by ViewTrick1002 on Sunday May 03, 2026 @09:57AM (#47997008)
I do notice that you are talking about past papers rather than this current one.

You also link another of the typical studies desperately trying to shove new built nuclear power into contention.

It looks like this: ”If we assume nuclear power is cheap and fast to build”.

Do the same for renewables and storage and the comparison becomes even more lopsided.

Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by Moldoteck on Sunday May 03, 2026 @11:32AM (#47997949)
I talked about current one too.

I've linked not a "typical studie" but a peer reviewed correction to the mistakes of the original paper.

Ironically we already know the answer about speed. Check out how TWh/y of clean power evolved in Denmark vs UAE with Barakah built by Korea

Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by ViewTrick1002 on Sunday May 03, 2026 @01:57PM (#47999571)
In which the peer review presents numbers that’s a fraction of all modern western nuclear power while not giving renewables the same benefit.

> Check out how TWh/y of clean power evolved in Denmark vs UAE with Barakah built by Korea

This tells me you are entirely out of your depth.

You do realize that what we care about are cumulative emissions? You also have to compare it by grid size.

The shining beacon in UAE you lift have a horrendous gCO2/kWh of 468 while Denmark sits at 114. Starting at 650.

Calling that what UAE achieved a success means you don’t care about decarbonization, only trillions in handouts to your pet technology.

Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by Moldoteck on Monday May 04, 2026 @03:41AM (#48005785)
You can inspect how that paper was peer reviewed by pointing out what was wrong with it) To me it's wild how people are defending nonsense written by frauds like Lund and Jacobson, both heavy antinuclear proponents that treat hydrogen as some dirt cheap power firming option

The discussion was about speed anyway. UAE achieved higher TWh of clean power than both Denmark and Portugal in less time, as simple as that - this is undeniable

The statement about "handouts of trillions to pet technology" shows you just don't care about emissions, you hate nuclear. Per IPEX nuclear gets 15x less subsidies vs renewables in EU. Germany spent on EEG alone double the cost of entire french nuclear fleet, the gap getting wider. From this year transmission will be subsidized too because DE households have highest prices in EU, close to Denmark. But i guess subsidies for your favorite technology are fine and for the rest it's absolute evil.

Saying that UAE didn't achieve success with it's Barakah is either delusion or willingness to ignore reality.

Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by ViewTrick1002 on Monday May 04, 2026 @06:11AM (#48006680)
You do realize that you went completely off the rails here?

I still haven't seen you levy a single factual criticism to the methodology in the paper I linked. It is just you lashing out.

Again you don't care about cumulative emissions, or the grid size.

https://imgur.com/a/09DMS72

And this is the graphs if you assume that renewables never become perfect:

https://imgur.com/a/WrLUrwK

You do realize based on these graphs that every investment in nuclear power just leads to more emissions?

Now lets talk about your TWh per year figure, comparing apples to oranges. UAEs grid is 184 TWh. Why didnt UAE do like Germany and deployed 196 TWh renewabels in that time and completely decarbonize their grid?

Are you realize how absolutely stupid you sound trying to compare TWh per year figures without referencing the grid size?