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How to get new nuclear built faster

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Re: How to get new nuclear built faster

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How about this, why don't SK, UK, French and US regulators get together and agree on a common set of regulations for reactor design. Then they can focus on the site specific regulations unique to each installation.

This remembers me, once international martian scientific sat fails, because on it half done by Americans, with Imperial measure units, and other half, by Europeans (most active usually France), with Metric measure units.

- On one important data transfer, from European module to American, somebody forgot convert units, and software decided to make full halt (to be honest, these things are extremely frequent, but mostly fixed after appear), and this time, unfortunately, this lead to mission loss.

But to be honest, civilian aviation is full of such issues, when appear some critical things, because people erroneous read measuring unit names.

For example, Gimli Glider case, when technicians erroneously read fuel amount in kilograms, but enter something other (their interface accepted centimeters, liters and kilograms and convert automatically), and as consequence, plane was carrying only 45% of it required fuel load. Fortunately, all alive and plane got minimal damage, but this is not always.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

Re: How to get new nuclear built faster

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool, but you still get below 5% capacity factor on solar in Poland during the day, and guess what? There's night 16 hours a day.

To calculate the energy produced by a 1 GW solar power plant during a winter month in Germany, we need to consider a few factors: 1. *Solar Insolation*: The average solar energy received per day in winter. 2. *Day Length*: Winter days are shorter, so there's less daylight for solar panels to operate. 3. *Panel Efficiency*: The efficiency of the solar panels in converting sunlight to electricity. 4. *Weather Condition…

You do so much assumptions yet they don't match reality _at all_.

>A 1 GW solar power plant in Germany could produce approximately 32.4 million kWh (or 32.4 GWh) of energy during a typical 30-day winter month, considering the factors and assumptions outlined earlier.

Okay, so this means on average 1GW of solar power should output ~1GWh of energy daily, right? So Germany's roughly 80GW of power would produce on average 80GWh of electricity? Well, let's look at _real_ data: https://app.electricitymaps.com/zone/DE

In the last 30 days there was exactly one day with over 80GWh of solar power produced: 9th January. And it was just 81GWh. Yet there was multiple days where actual electricity produced barely went over 10GWh... or not even 10GWh, like 21 December with 7GWh produced. Three days ago, it was 14,5GWh.

Overall solar power production in Germany in December was 795GWh, below 1/3 of your estimate.

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