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Nuclear power is neither cheap nor affordable. The cost of nuclear energy has increased by 47% the most recent US reactor cost over US$35 billion - more than twice its budget.
cost of renewables ha… |
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| 8d ago |
Every dollar you spend on new nuclear energy buys you less than one-third the amount of electricity produced by solar energy with battery backup. To make up the difference, you will have to buy mor… |
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| 8d ago |
Unfortunately, a double whammy…flooding (before) & intense heat (now) in Asheville
The climate crisis needs to be mitigated ASAP
Let’s get serious about it
Vote in candidates who support clean e… |
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| 8d ago |
American exceptionalism on fucking wildfire smoke just proves how arrogant & stupid the filthy Yanks are. Is it pageantry for their stupid voters or do they genuinely not understand how weather & f… |
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| 8d ago |
Natural disasters have an adverse effect on all forms of energy production. But here's the thing - solar does not make the natural disasters exponentially worse.
In 2017 hurricane Harvey knocked o… |
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| 8d ago |
Battery storage is cheap enough for day-night intraday swings. It’s expensive if you need to move electricity from summer to winter or cover a three week wind drought. You can flex nuclear output b… |
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| 8d ago |
Given the UK's weather, would need to be overwhelmingly nuclear, no?
And nuclear is great as baseload provider, but cannot feasibly be turned on and off again to accommodate solar, esp if battery … |
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| 8d ago |
(Nuclear has risks as well of course but the point is ‘blanket the U.K. with solar/wind’ is probably not a feasible answer so you’re back to backing with gas or nuclear to some extent) |
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| 8d ago |
But pretty straightforwardly any grid with enough storage to manage wind or solar will have oodles of storage to flex with demand given a totally flat baseload supply. If nuclear and wind were the … |
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| 8d ago |
Nuclear combines well with storage. Why not nuclear + batteries and solar combines well with useage patterns. So a mix of solar and nuclear can manage with a relatively small amount of storage. |
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| 8d ago |
Unfortunately we do have to resign ourselves to:
-increeasing forest fires + air quality alerts
-Therme Spa 99 year lease no one wants
-Science Centre downsized into irrelevance
-Billy Bishop expa… |
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| 8d ago |
From this article: "Solar was the EU’s largest single source of power for the month, ahead of nuclear (21 per cent), gas (15 per cent), wind (14 per cent) and hydro (12 per cent), with coal generat… |
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| 8d ago |
I would love to hear about large scale battery production and energy storage projects for wind and solar power, but the nova Scotia wind project and grid infrastructure are good moves. Hope you are… |
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| 8d ago |
US folk: "Don't ask us to live in bikeable/walkable communities. Or stop using huge trucks for errands. Or use solar and wind energy. That's leftie communism straight from Europe!"
US folk: "What'… |
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| 8d ago |
The plan also expands the Community Solar Energy Program by up to 3,000 MW, pairing solar for daytime demand with nuclear's constant baseline power.
5/7 |
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| 8d ago |
This work has a few unusual features, including some technical innovations that may be useful for others:
(1) We kept a sharp focus on crazy near-term conditions, where rapid load growth collides… |
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| 8d ago |
Rooftop solar saved New England ratepayers more than $130 million in electricity costs during the region’s early July heat wave, according to a report from the Acadia Center.
mainemorningstar.com… |
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| 8d ago |
At least the smoke from the wildfires is blocking solar radiation from the heatwave. |
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| 8d ago |
Nuclear is expensive because we've decided it has to be. Solar is not expensive because we've decided it shouldn't be. Both of these things are decisions, not inherencies. |
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| 8d ago |
The administration has stymied wind and solar while backing fossil fuels and nuclear, but analysts say it has yet to deliver results.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... |
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| 8d ago |
Our executive director @sachuconstantine.bsky.social joined KPFA Radio A Rude Awakening last week to highlight how solar is already reshaping our electric grid. Listen here: kpfa.org/episode/sach... |
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| 8d ago |
I thought I was prepared for the apocalypse by getting solar panels and an electric car...but this wildfire smoke really is doing a number on my ability to produce electricity. ⚡ |
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| 8d ago |
Maybe data centres should be required to produce as much power as they use, but all from solar, wind, or nuclear? |
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| 8d ago |
If nuclear got the same degree of subsidies and regulatory forbearance as solar, it would cost the same amount. (Right now the strongest regulations on solar involve the safety of electrical-servic… |
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| 8d ago |
I think there is space but you’d have to be fine with government intervention. The US Gov borrows at 4% over 30 years. That’s a lot of solar/nuclear/wind capacity it could build and sell electric… |
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| 8d ago |
Also, I don't think we have to give up on nuclear and indeed I support more investment in nuclear. But also, solar is really cheap right now, there's no reason not to deploy it. |
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| 8d ago |
Look it’s cool! I like the trekky futurism of it but yeah right now dollar for dollar solar just makes more sense in most places. It’s annoying that people were stupid about nuclear power fears for… |
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| 8d ago |
NYT:
"Trump has spent billions on energy. Why are electricity bills still going up?
"The administration has allocated $2.7 billion to stymie wind and solar, while backing fossil fuels and nuclear."… |
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| 8d ago |
The average lead time to get a new nuke power plant online is 8-12 years. We don't have that long.
Meanwhile, the global build-out of solar has accelerated to the point where, every couple months… |
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| 8d ago |
Wash Post: President Has Spent Billions On Fossil Fuels, Nuclear While Canceling Wind, Solar Generation That Were Ready To Go - His Electricity Boom Has Yet To Materialize tinyurl.com/mpvs3nz4 |
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