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Originally Posted by Zybane
Nuclear is by far the best option right now. Yet almost the whole world is against it, crazy stuff.
Germany is really feeling the pain now of them shutting down their nuclear reactors.
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Just to clarify on Nuclear …..Nuclear can only provide a base load, and they have to be scheduled start up, scheduled shut down, require scheduled maintenance outages…..ie, they are slow start up and slow shut down. To manage the grid and not suffer blackouts then power companies use (for lack of a better term) fast start up and fast shut down sources to manage requirements above and beyond the base load. The peaks and valleys of demand vs supply above the base load has to be massaged and balanced 24/7. Right now that’s gas and coal. Solar and wind might someday be used for that but it’s not there yet. Hydro has never been reliable enough to depend on for it either. They are not reliable enough 24/7 to depend on it for grid management.