US can reach 100% clean power by 2035, DOE finds
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US can reach 100% clean power by 2035, DOE finds
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Re: US can reach 100% clean power by 2035, DOE finds
#2At the beginning of the article is says:
"But it does not explain how adequate land to reach a 90% clean electricity penetration can be acquired or how reliability will be protected beyond that 90% penetration, stakeholders acknowledged."
I'm confused that they can put a time frame on a problem they have no idea how to solve yet.
Re: US can reach 100% clean power by 2035, DOE finds
#3"Nuclear is likely to be 9% to 12% of generation in 2035" - this is absurd. We should have much more aggressive targets for nuclear. Because it is the cleanest, safest and most reliable source of 0-emission power.
France gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear now.
Re: US can reach 100% clean power by 2035, DOE finds
#4"Nuclear is likely to be 9% to 12% of generation in 2035" - this is absurd. We should have much more aggressive targets for nuclear. Because it is the cleanest, safest and most reliable source of 0-emission power. France gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear now.
From reactors built 40 years ago.
https://www.reuters.com/article/france-nuclear-edf-idINKBN2A...
Re: US can reach 100% clean power by 2035, DOE finds
#5"Nuclear is likely to be 9% to 12% of generation in 2035" - this is absurd. We should have much more aggressive targets for nuclear. Because it is the cleanest, safest and most reliable source of 0-emission power. France gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear now.
The US can't build a nuclear plant in 13 years.
Re: US can reach 100% clean power by 2035, DOE finds
#6"Nuclear is likely to be 9% to 12% of generation in 2035" - this is absurd. We should have much more aggressive targets for nuclear. Because it is the cleanest, safest and most reliable source of 0-emission power. France gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear now.
Define now, because there's a now in which we'd really like to be able to make that much...
Re: US can reach 100% clean power by 2035, DOE finds
#7"Nuclear is likely to be 9% to 12% of generation in 2035" - this is absurd. We should have much more aggressive targets for nuclear. Because it is the cleanest, safest and most reliable source of 0-emission power. France gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear now.
More than half of France's nuclear reactors are out of commission right now, so for the foreseeable future that "70%" is more aspirational than anything.
We are obviously not going to meet all of our energy needs — especially for certain high-demand applications — from solar and wind alone, but there are some significant advantages to a decentralized power grid that the pro-nuclear folks don't seem to factor into their arguments. Assuming we can build it out, a decentralized grid ought to be much more resilient to the sort of problems France is facing right now.
Re: US can reach 100% clean power by 2035, DOE finds
#8"Nuclear is likely to be 9% to 12% of generation in 2035" - this is absurd. We should have much more aggressive targets for nuclear. Because it is the cleanest, safest and most reliable source of 0-emission power. France gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear now.
From reactors built 40 years ago. https://www.reuters.com/article/france-nuclear-edf-idINKBN2A...
It apparently took about a decade or so to go from planning to running most of these power plants...
Re: US can reach 100% clean power by 2035, DOE finds
#9"Nuclear is likely to be 9% to 12% of generation in 2035" - this is absurd. We should have much more aggressive targets for nuclear. Because it is the cleanest, safest and most reliable source of 0-emission power. France gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear now.
Before the typical "nuclear is too expensive/takes too long to build" comments start: https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html. Understand why this is the case and how it's entirely reasonable to fix those problems with sufficient will & funding.
Re: US can reach 100% clean power by 2035, DOE finds
#10We can have 100% clean energy by 2035 if we assume the US is China and the state can build whatever it wants despite any local objections. And assume we increase battery supply by 40x (even though lithium price is going up dramatically now). And assume that clean power is actually 100% clean.
It's good to have a vision for clean energy though that is shared with the country that we start working towards. I can see the benefit of not letting reality weight down an initial brainstorm of that. Hopefully we can come up with a realistic vision as a next step.