Zee was zee long before posh English twats decided to say zed.
Source: my ass
Zee was zee long before posh English twats decided to say zed.
Source: my ass
People have a hard-on about nuclear being “baseload” power and renewables being intermittent. Solar/wind plus batteries to add dispatchability is a valid comparison to nuclear if you only want to talk about baseload.
This is due to corporate greed. Solar and wind are the cheapest sources of energy in the history of the world.
Even current lithium-based battery storage is already cheaper than nuclear.
Hydro is often turned on and off as pumped storage. Nuclear never is
Out of those you listed, nuclear is the least flexible in terms of output regulation. PV with batteries is the most flexible.
Yeah the poster above you is wrong. Solar is WAY less than half the price.
Solar plus batteries are already cheaper than nuclear, and only going down. Nuclear has always gotten more expensive over time. For the cost of the most recently completed nuclear plant in the US they could have built 12 times the nameplate capacity worth of solar with 24 hours of battery backup. (A totally unnecessary amount of dispatchability.)
Solar and batteries easily “pay” for their manufacturing carbon emissions within 1-2 years max (as does nuclear). This payback period only goes down as the grid gets greener.
I want everything to be toggle switches. If I could get a keyboard made of 105 classic toggle switches it would be worth the effort to type with it.
It smells and feels awful, though.
I’m literally 100% the opposite. Give me some morels, porcini, lions mane… anything but shiitake.