When I think of the time, money and institutional bandwidth dedicated to promoting this sunset technology in #wales - compared to renewables - it's maddening.
Hitachi to pull plug on north Wales #nuclear power station | Business | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/15/hitachi-to-pull-plug-on-north-wales-nuclear-power-station
But then RE also has low capacity factor, so only gives power 30% of the time on average, which means you need energy storage of the capacity of the whole system (doesn't exist), or build... a nuclear or fossil gas plant to provide baseload.
The more I learn about these technologies, the more I feel we've been scammed by the fossil industry once again, as they tricked us to replace low-emission, clean nuclear power with fossil gas using FUD...
@kravietz @davidoclubb For nuclear you also need storage or some method to bring supply and demand together (markets, grid, ...). That is why the Guardian article is talking about producing H2 with the expensive nuclear power.
You can use the land between wind mills, you do not have to protect it against terrorism.
> You can use the land between wind mills
You can use it for very small range of activities only like farming, nothing else. This is precisely why new on-shore wind farms are being blocked in Germany, France and even Norway, where they were causing massive migration of animals due to noise.
What kind of large animals are living in Wales exactly?
@kravietz @VictorVenema Why 'large' animals? First time you've mentioned this.
In Norway it was specifically reindeer migration that caused the protests. In Wales the problem is solved by not having reindeer or anything else larger than small deers.
@kravietz @VictorVenema Well this is a new element to the discussion - specifically Norwegian - that doesn't account for the other countries you mentioned.
Look, you clearly have very personal reasons for supporting #nuclear and that's fine. I don't share them, and I don't think this conversation is going to illuminate any further, so let's draw it to an elegant end here.
In case you're interested in the insurance question, there's some details in my paper from 2012. https://www.slideshare.net/daveclubb/leveling-the-playing-field-the-economics-of-electricity-generation-in-europe
@kravietz I see your time line is full of anti-green energy propaganda. I had hoped to be spared such people here in Mastodon. Would not have jumped in had I known this is your identity, thought you might have been a misinformed citizen.
Have a good day. @davidoclubb
Renewable energy alone is not green, that's very simple fact that is clearly supported by the scientific data.
@kravietz @VictorVenema If you contact me again on this matter, after I've politely asked you twice to stop, I'll report you to the moderators
You can report me anywhere you like. I'm not being offensive, I'm just quoting scientific data that you dislike.
The right solution in this case for you is to mute or block users at your will.
One of the reasons why the energy sector in Europe is increasingly dependent on fossil fuels, while we should be going the opposite way, is precisely because of people like you ignoring science and engineering.
I blocked and reported him @VictorVenema
@kravietz @VictorVenema Not the case in Wales where animals and wind turbines coexist in harmony