Wait until you learn how many days did Uruguay run on renewables.
Did you mean Paraguay? They are 100% hydro. So is Albania.
Nop I did mean Uruguay they are like 3/4 hydro 1/4 wind.
Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row
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Re: Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row
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"Based on facts, it is currently plain wrong." No. "Your sentence "Nuclear power plants are nowhere near insured to risk" is pretty typical of the anti-nuclear argumentation: Mainly based on feelings not on facts." A: Fukushima is costing $200B B: US nuclear power plants are insured for a payout of $15B A+B: US power plants are underinsured by $185B (Germany had $0.25B insurance company payouts and $2.25B coverage by…
> EnergyWende" is not a German word. While Java is using Camelcase, German is not using Camelcase. Quick question, outside of the necessity of CamelCase. Are water dam operating companies insured up to the damages of a damn rupture ? Like in the case of the Vajont damn in Italy ? Even for your car insurance: Will your insurance pays for the society cost of two disabled persons for life after you hit them when your ti…
Check your car insurance, personal damage is insured at double sigit millions, for example in Germany. So yes, cars are fully insured. Nuclear isn't and never was, insurance maths knows no mercy.
Re: Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row
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BTC mining is the exact opposite of scalable: there's a fixed supply of BTC available to mining, so you can only pay for so many nuclear power plants with it. Even the entire bitcoin market cap is about enough for 20 nuclear power plants, optimistically (and that's ignoring the cost of the miners themselves, risk, etc, etc).
Mining fees will more than cover mining costs when the block reward becomes negligible. The use case of balancing excess power generation and load profitably is real and would significantly reduce carbon emissions if understood & properly implemented. Instead of approaching with emotions, I recommend investigating ideas with an open mind. Beyond that, bitcoin works and is here to stay. It is the first sovereign curre…
trust me, I have thought about it. I was enthusiastic about bitcoin early on, but I have become more and more pessimistic about it becoming a net good as time goes on. Especially this idea of it being useful for promoting green energy, especially a useful supply of green energy for the grid, just doesn't hold up much to scrutiny, especially at scale.
Re: Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row
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`Nuclear "just works"` No it doesn't. Nuclear power plants are nowhere near insured to risk and nuclear waste is not paid for. So nuclear operators are freeloading on society for decades making billions of profits [0]. To make nuclear "work", one would need to adjust insurance and establish a trust to pay for nuclear waste facility operation for the next hundres of years. But then, no one would operate them nuclear p…
> So nuclear operators are freeloading on society for decades making billions of profits Funny. I have the opposite take. Society has freeloaded off of nuclear for a generation or two by ignoring the wider social benefits and putting all the risk on the operators. Cheap, clean, reliable power matters. That we made it expensive via some made up social construct isn't very material to me in the bigger picture. > As a c…
Nuclear is not cheap.
Re: Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row
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Nobody is chopping down old growth forest to burn in electrical plants. What happens is that combustible waste and young growth (especially the bits unusable by the lumber industry) get burned. This is a cylcle, not to be compared with coal or oil. Yes, it's still polluting.
> Nobody is chopping down old growth forest to burn in electrical plants. I wouldn't be so sure. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63089348 https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/26/biomass-ca... https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/estonia-h...
Indeed, material from logging can end up in a plant to be burned for electrical power. But: that's after the lumber industry has had its way with the logs and by that time you have sawdust and odds and bits, these are pulped and compressed into pellets, those are then burned.
Re: Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row
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The definition of a catastrophic one-in-a-lifetime event: you can't plan for it. Fukushima had been in operation since 1971 . You truly really believe that there were no earthquakes in the meantime, and the only reason for failure in 2011 is that they didn't plan for the largest earthquake and one of the worst tsunamis in Japanese history?
Well, according the IAEA, the planning against, and risk evaluation of, earthquakes and tsunamis for the Fukushima Daiichi NPP were insufficient: >> The seismic hazard and tsunami waves considered in the original design were evaluated mainly on the basis of historical seismic records and evidence of recent tsunamis in Japan. This original evaluation did not sufficiently consider tectonic-geological criteria and no re…
This is what I don't like about anti-nuclear FUDers: overconfident post-hoc rationalisation completely ignoring everything (context, history etc.).
Not a single one of these FUDers said anything about Fukushima in the 40 years of its operation in an active seismic zone (translation: multiple earthquakes) in a country that had at the time over 50 operating nuclear reactors.
But the 2011 happened. And look at them crawling out of the woods with armed with overconfidence, thinly veiled ad-hominems and TV shows.
Re: Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row
#367Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, according the IAEA, the planning against, and risk evaluation of, earthquakes and tsunamis for the Fukushima Daiichi NPP were insufficient: >> The seismic hazard and tsunami waves considered in the original design were evaluated mainly on the basis of historical seismic records and evidence of recent tsunamis in Japan. This original evaluation did not sufficiently consider tectonic-geological criteria and no re…
This is what I don't like about anti-nuclear FUDers: overconfident post-hoc rationalisation completely ignoring everything (context, history etc.). Not a single one of these FUDers said anything about Fukushima in the 40 years of its operation in an active seismic zone (translation: multiple earthquakes) in a country that had at the time over 50 operating nuclear reactors. But the 2011 happened. And look at them craw…
Ad-homones and TV shows? I litterally cited the IAEA report on Fukushima... But I agree, cunducting regular audits, similar to after incident investigations, is something the IAEA should do. Similar to what the FAA and EASA do.
But let me guess, you don't even know where to find said IAEA report, do you?
Re: Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row
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I'm the kind of "I'll believe it when I see it" type of person. The transition is clearly not going well and they even wanted to build more gas pipes, the russian war lessons have not been learned. Renewables in the EU overpromissed and underdelivered for a long time.
Share of nuclear and renewables: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/nuclear-renewables-electr... https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/nuclear-renewables-electr...
Note that the bulk of those renewables is hydropower, which is geographically dependent.