The amount of annual subsidies is around $2 billion. It's a tiny number for a country as large as Japan. Their GDB is $4 trillion per year.
5PJ is not that large, only 1.4 TWh.
Low electricity costs are a problem for all electricity plans, not only nuclear. Renewables are even more susceptible to this because the weather affects all renewable plants of the same type similarly across wide…
Wind and solar are only possible because they use the rest of the grid as effectively a giant battery. When the sun shines and/or the wind blows, someone else needs to reduce the electricity generation. The end result…
Also, the reason this is only possible at all is that Germany uses the rest of Europe as a giant battery to manage the non-dispatchability of renewables. The import-export balance often changes by as much as one third…
> hydrogen fuel cells are technically batteries and have absurdly high energy densities. The devil is in the details - this is only partially right. Hydrogen has absurdly high energy densities when considering weight,…
> What utter bullshit. Most countries could do so. Unfortunately when wishes and hard reality meets for a fight, the reality wins. In this case failure modes of renewable-only policy are not obvious, but this doesn't…
> This is patently false. It's not false, it's just probably not easy to understand. It's easy to understand if we consider a hypothetical situation where the nuclear power plant is running AND Germany still keeps all…
It's not even that all the nuclear power plants failed. It was a combination of a choice to defer maintenance due to Covid, and also a choice to stop every power plant to address a new possible fault regardless of…
This would still cause hydrogen embrittlement which results in cracked steel pipes.
Hinkley point construction started 2017, not 2008. In 2008 even the site wasn't picked yet.
I think you should also consider tens of millions of people who lived under Russian boot in USSR itself and Warsaw pact countries. It appeared that wealth inequality is lower because there was no free press and thus no…
The amount of annual subsidies is around $2 billion. It's a tiny number for a country as large as Japan. Their GDB is $4 trillion per year.
5PJ is not that large, only 1.4 TWh.
Low electricity costs are a problem for all electricity plans, not only nuclear. Renewables are even more susceptible to this because the weather affects all renewable plants of the same type similarly across wide…
Wind and solar are only possible because they use the rest of the grid as effectively a giant battery. When the sun shines and/or the wind blows, someone else needs to reduce the electricity generation. The end result…
Also, the reason this is only possible at all is that Germany uses the rest of Europe as a giant battery to manage the non-dispatchability of renewables. The import-export balance often changes by as much as one third…
> hydrogen fuel cells are technically batteries and have absurdly high energy densities. The devil is in the details - this is only partially right. Hydrogen has absurdly high energy densities when considering weight,…
> What utter bullshit. Most countries could do so. Unfortunately when wishes and hard reality meets for a fight, the reality wins. In this case failure modes of renewable-only policy are not obvious, but this doesn't…
> This is patently false. It's not false, it's just probably not easy to understand. It's easy to understand if we consider a hypothetical situation where the nuclear power plant is running AND Germany still keeps all…
It's not even that all the nuclear power plants failed. It was a combination of a choice to defer maintenance due to Covid, and also a choice to stop every power plant to address a new possible fault regardless of…
This would still cause hydrogen embrittlement which results in cracked steel pipes.
Hinkley point construction started 2017, not 2008. In 2008 even the site wasn't picked yet.
I think you should also consider tens of millions of people who lived under Russian boot in USSR itself and Warsaw pact countries. It appeared that wealth inequality is lower because there was no free press and thus no…