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PV for baseload? How does that work?

Everyone will use candles at night?




> PV for baseload?

It's remarkable you were able to read that into what I wrote, when that wasn't at all what I wrote.

The point I was making was that intermittent renewables can screw up the market for nuclear, even if the renewables themselves do not supply baseload.

You may be under the misapprehension that if there is a base level of demand on the grid, then that base level of demand can only be supplied by baseload power sources like nuclear or coal. This is not the case. It was in the case in the past that baseload sources were the cheapest way to satisfy that demand, but there's no law of physics or economics that requires that to always be true. And increasingly it's NOT true.


Right but only because you’re ignoring storage which is the only way to make PV really work (duck curve is an absurdity caused by lack of storage).

Sorry I missed your point, but your still misunderstanding what’s needed.


Renewables can ruin the market for nuclear even without storage. Adding economical short term storage (we're close with batteries, and almost certainly will have it before any nuclear plant whose construction was green-lit today could be completed) and nuclear is not just in trouble, it is dead.




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