Although I agree it was dumb of them to close down their nuclear plants, and think they should build a lot more, I can't see how it would be possible for them not to reduce emissions substantially with a $580B VRE investment. Can you explain your math?
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I follow your thoughts about nuclear and your criticism on renewables, I would like to know what do you think about an article published yesterday in LeMonde about nuclear waste and issues on how France is handling them.https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2019/04/25/comment-le-nucleaire-produit-des-dechets-pour-des-millenaires_5454539_3244.html …
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תודה. טוויטר ישתמש בזאת כדי לשפר את ציר הזמן שלך. ביטולביטול
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I've had renewables advocates swear to me they are the solution. When asked what about when sun doesn't shine/wind doesn't blow, given current battery tech can't cover the gap, they just say, it will someday. Proof not needed if you are not in the energy biz but the hope biz.

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Faith based grid: "The wind is always blowing somewhere." Fantasy based grid: "Magic battery technology will fix wind and solar."
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France has PWR reactors running on uranium which has very limited supplies in the world, and producing some plutonium waste, A better and safer plan would be Thorium reactors, and Fast breeder reactors, burning up waste, and with potential for thousands of years of energy
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Only 60.000 years.. Better build more gas plants because uranium is finite
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/07/01/uranium-seawater-extraction-makes-nuclear-power-completely-renewable/amp/ … -
Not yet done efficiently, and there is still plutonium waste still has to be delt with, Thorium and fast breeders are better options. Gas of course is one of the worst options as obtaining and transporting it leads to leaks of this very powerful climate warming gas
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Plutonium is fissile, and while there is plutonium in spent fuel, it's hardly what makes it inconvenient to handle. Regardless. A mix of gen 2-3+ designs, together with breeders made to use the spent fuel in breed blankets (roughly speaking), is a very reasonable way forward.
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Your argument is invalid. You know, there is a difference between investment costs and operation cost. France hasn't build a new nuclear reactor in years, because, new nuclear is much more expensive than new renewables. In France, in Germany and the RoW.
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You again fail to understand reality because of your bias. The point is that even with an (apparent) higher cost to build, the total cost of energy from nuclear is vastly lower than wind and solar, because the lifetime of that large up front investment is vastly longer for nuke
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the reality is, that nuclear is the only energy technology that demonstrably had negative learning rates: http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/9242/ If Germany was to build the same amount of solar again, with todays cost structure those 580B would be much less.
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They argument for mandating and subsidizing a lot of wind and solar was to establish mature supply chains and best practices to bring prices down. Costs have come down, and they would for nuclear too
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right. But at the moment wind and PV are way cheaper. Even in France.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-energy-renewables/france-plans-to-triple-wind-power-capacity-by-2030-idUSKCN1NW1Z8 …
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@ShellenbergerMD and I would both be happy to wager prices and emissions will go up if they build more wind
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People don't understand the magnitude and scale when it comes to replacing fossil fuel. They believe energy can come from pixie dust if we just bring ourselves to think outside of the box. I get told that offten. Think outside the box and I'm a power plant design engineer.
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I mispelled often. I can't wait for plant Vogtle to start up it's two AP1000 units. These two units will have far less regulatory burden. Old plants are now operating at $28/MW-HR = Combined Cycle The AP1000 should come in much less. Cheeper than gas. Too cheap to meter.
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מסתבר כי הטעינה לוקחת זמן־מה.
ייתכן שיש עומס או תקלה זמנית בטוויטר. נסה שוב או בקר בדף המצב של טוויטר לקבלת מידע נוסף.