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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • they aren’t being driven out of existence by wind and solar that’s just wrong.

    They are being driven out by prolitics and fear of the unknown.

    Waste is problem which has been blown out of proportion in the media.

    Nuclear is more expensive than wind comparable to solar. Major point in it’s favor is base load reliability. Look at capacity factors of the major base load providers. Solar is barely 26%/ Wind 24%/30% on-/off shore and Nuclear is 3x of that and highly predictable (as it’s downtime is planned maintainsnce).

    Pure wind solar would have to be 300% average load(heating excluded!!!) with nearly 15day storage to have a blackout probability on under 1%.

    I am genuinely all for Wind and Solar. Although my comments on this post might lead one to think otherwise.(independence of power for countries is a big + for Wind Solar which is a - for Nuclear)

    But I am for fastest road to green electricity… more like just do everything to get rid of CO2 intense production methods.


  • I am aware of that but that’s due to Compulsive exporting by shunting the prices to near 0€ as there is overproduction on sunny days.

    if you look at the net value of exported vs imported electricity. Germany is strongly in deficit.

    Also the overproducion isn’t great cause he renewabke the LCOE is calculated at install time but the actual cost it’s larger as you end up giving away the electricity (Very difficult to assess on the free market)

    In addition to that Germany’s energy mix has 5-8x carbon intensity as that of France.

    The German solution isn’t economical and by far not ecological. hey but they do better than Poland so that’s something.