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7 months agoPeople have a hard-on about nuclear being “baseload” power and renewables being intermittent. Solar/wind plus batteries to add dispatchability is a valid comparison to nuclear if you only want to talk about baseload.
People have a hard-on about nuclear being “baseload” power and renewables being intermittent. Solar/wind plus batteries to add dispatchability is a valid comparison to nuclear if you only want to talk about baseload.
Even current lithium-based battery storage is already cheaper than nuclear.
Hydro is often turned on and off as pumped storage. Nuclear never is
Out of those you listed, nuclear is the least flexible in terms of output regulation. PV with batteries is the most flexible.
Yeah the poster above you is wrong. Solar is WAY less than half the price.
LLMs: using statistics to generate reasonable-sounding wrong answers from bad data.