illiarian

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by illiarian 3y ago
You are spreading FUD and fearmongering about nuclear. We've had 60 years of nuclear and thousands of reactors. Still waiting for those terrorists I guess. > as supposed to the also criminal but less intentional neglect in the case
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by illiarian 3y ago
> Nuclear reactors are not only slow to switch power output This is not true > On top of that, running nuclear reactors on average significantly below maximum output drives the cost up further. It doesn't
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by illiarian 3y ago
> I don't know the actual numbers, but what if peak load is 50% higher than average load You'd know if you read the link I provided. Nuclear plants in Germany had no issues scaling up and down between 400-600MW and 1200-1400MW
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by illiarian 3y ago
> The irony being those same plants failed at the time of the biggest energy crises since then. They didn't fail.
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by illiarian 3y ago
> Ramping down renewables is lots faster and easier. And the source for this is? Because reality seems to disagree with you > The stability argument is just populistic bullshit. Plausible on the surface, not a concern in actual practi
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by illiarian 3y ago
> Nuclear has failed to scale, it's a well documented issue. It hasn't, and it's not a "well-documented issue". What's documented is decades of FUD, fear-mongering, underinvestment etc. > If decarbonizati
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by illiarian 3y ago
> France needs to and is decarbonising. In Europe only Sweden and Norway have lower carbon emissions from electricity generation than France.
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by illiarian 3y ago
> costs they kept halfway reasonable by neglecting maintenance. That is not how you keep costs reasonable. You're just postponing them until they become unreasonable.
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by illiarian 3y ago
I forgot to mention in the sibling comment: > in a Grid which draws like 50. Installed wind capacity in Germany is 65GW. Seems to be much higher than what grid demands. And yet, on April 15th it was producing only 5% of that. And solar w
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by illiarian 3y ago
> No, renewables are easy to regulate and nothing about them is slow. Renewables are among the slowest power sources to ramp up production. Which is complicated by the fact that they are intermittent. > That is, why there is a need fo
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by illiarian 3y ago
> Though no idea how realistic this is They promise to start delivering power in 2030, and estimate the project cost at 16bn dollars or something along those lines. We all now how well it goes with mega projects :)
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by illiarian 3y ago
> but with placing the power plants at the coasts. You might have made cooling easier, but increased the demand for the grid How is this any different from offshore wind farms or power lines from Norway to Germany? > it is way easier
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by illiarian 3y ago
> How many plants were shut down because of water supply 0.18% of power generation > how many due to planned maintenance and underinvestment of France govt last 10 or so years And that is the main problem.
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by illiarian 3y ago
> We are talking about 3 GW less nuclear in a Grid which draws like 50. 6% > A large part of these 3 GW will be replaced even in 2023 0% of solar generation and 5% of wind generation will be replaced with what exactly?
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by illiarian 3y ago
> But it is doable, Funny how for renewables it's "certainly it's doable" and "powerlines can be built", but for nuclear "The problem of course is the proximity to power consumers"
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by illiarian 3y ago
> base load" is mostly a concept important for slow, bad to regulate power plants. You've just described renewables. > So the amount of energy which was previously part of "base load" will be reduced considerably.
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by illiarian 3y ago
Germany has other peaks. That's why nuclear reactors before they were shutdown were routinely going between 600-800MW and 1.2-1.4 GW per reactor per day: https://www.oecd-nea.org/upload/docs/application/p
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by illiarian 3y ago
This was the very definition of a black swan event. Imagine if all dams were subjected to the same insanity after dam failures like Banqiao Dam failure
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by illiarian 3y ago
There are graphs in the report.
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by illiarian 3y ago
> Germany would have had to burn coal that night anyway But much, much less coal. > The output of the remaining 3 reactors would have been only a fraction of the electricity requirements anyway. That is s great way to say: we killed o
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by illiarian 3y ago
Doesn't this show how much Germany imports from France?
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by illiarian 3y ago
> It boggles my mind that Germany can decarbonize so much and so fast Compare it to France which didn't have to decarbonize to begin with. Because of those bad-bad-bad no-good reactors.
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by illiarian 3y ago
> Fukushima was just another data point to stick to this plan. Fukushima wasn't a data point. It was a populist FUD talking point.
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by illiarian 3y ago
Ah yes. And you have cables sending you power from that other side, right?
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by illiarian 3y ago
> That's not fast enough. That's more than fast enough. You could see it in the graphs in the document if you bothered to read it. Note: renewables like wind and solar are orders of magnitude slower, intermittent, and actually
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by illiarian 3y ago
> The problem of course is the proximity to power consumers or you have to expand the grid. What's your opinion on UK-Morocco powerline then?
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by illiarian 3y ago
Fukushima: - hit by earthquake at or above upper structural limit. The most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan "maximum ground g-forces of 0.56, 0.52, 0.56 at units 2, 3, and 5 respectively. This exceeded the seismic reactor
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by illiarian 3y ago
0.18% of nuclear power generation was lost due to water levels and temperatures. Also nothing stops you from building nuclear plants in other locations
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by illiarian 3y ago
> And pretty much all nuclear projects are finished behind schedule and wayyy above budget. All projects do, including wind and solar. --- start quote --- Ernst & Young (EY) has found that an average power and utility megaproject is
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by illiarian 3y ago
Yup. And had to burn coal on that night because solar generation was at 0%, and wind generation was at 5% of installed capacity.

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