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Germany shutting down last nuclear power plants on April 15th
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.RC.:

--- Quote from: Siwastaja on April 22, 2023, 07:14:05 am ---

The big difference is, solar and wind production is so much cheaper per produced kWh to build and maintain (total cost of ownership with all true expenses) that overdimensioning them does not become such a problem overdimensioning nuclear production would have been (no one tried).

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Depends on what price you put on reliability.  You must have storage and yet one struggles to find information on storage costs for grid sized networks for 100% reliability.  How many hours or days storage you need.

At the end of the day, storage is very expensive.   

But all this emissions stuff.   No need to worry.   There are enough billions of people in third world countries, that will burn every last bit of coal, gas and oil.  Because it is cheap to utilise as it is such low technology. You do not need a single piece of silicon semiconductor material to turn fossil fuels into electricity.

It might be expensive in western countries, but that is only because of regulation.
Siwastaja:

--- Quote from: .RC. on April 22, 2023, 10:26:12 am ---Depends on what price you put on reliability.  You must have storage

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This is going in circles. Again: you don't need storage, and it has nothing to do with reliability. Fossil fuels can be used to supplement renewables just like they were and are used to supplement nuclear. This is how it works now and it works well.
mendip_discovery:
Not sure if anyone else has posted this link.

https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

Its UK only but an interesting site to look at it shows the usage.

Is there pages similar this for other countries?
.RC.:
Fossil fuels are being phased out though.

There is not going to be this fossil fuel backup in the future.
switchabl:

--- Quote from: mendip_discovery on April 22, 2023, 12:06:43 pm ---Not sure if anyone else has posted this link.

https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

Its UK only but an interesting site to look at it shows the usage.

Is there pages similar this for other countries?

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Fraunhofer ISE has a very comprehensive website for Germany (also covers other European countries but the level of detail and the quality of the data varies):
https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE
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