Post B1kaCNO5unknOFz62a by SuperMoosie@mastodon.au
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(DIR) Post #B1kH1auxN8or2RV6wa by collectifission@greennuclear.online
2025-12-29T14:58:58Z
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A rant on Belgian media on hyping solar energyI'm really annoyed with media ... again. This time about the halleluja stories on solar energy 'beating' or 'matching' nuclear in Belgium. One English language example was in the Brussels Times [1].If you scroll down the picture becomes more nuanced: Belgium has recently closed the fifth out of its seven reactors, for no good reason besides complying with a nuclear phase out law that has already been repealed and an owner that *really* wants to sell fossil gas as that is where the money is.Furthermore, Belgium is importing more and more electricity, ever since it started to close their nuclear fleet in 2022. If we take 2021 as index year, the numbers are as follows[2]:2021: 7.6 TWh net export2022: 5.8 TWh net export2023: 3.2 TWh net import2024: 10.7 TWh net import2025: 14 TWh net importThis is a similar pattern we see with Germany, which also aims big on solar and wind without clean dispatchable power. Renewabros will argue that this isn't a big issue, as the whole European grid is interconnected, but if everyone is going to net import, this *will* become a problem.Of course, this leads to higher electricity prices and industry is already compaining that it pays double the amount as French industry does [3]. Sweet irony hits reality again as French nuclear saves the day... For French industry anyway.But how many people will read past the headline and cheer because solar has presumably 'won'? Ugh.[1] https://www.brusselstimes.com/1895598/belgian-renewable-energy-production-matches-its-nuclear-power-plants[2] https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/import_export_map/chart.htm?l=en&c=BE&interval=year&year=2021[3] https://trends.knack.be/nieuws/macro-economie-beleid/elektriciteit-is-in-belgie-ruim-de-helft-duurder-dan-in-frankrijk/
(DIR) Post #B1kHIRdj7WxRBcTbfc by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-12-29T15:55:39Z
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@collectifission I keep having people tell me that renewables plus storage can deliver "firm" power cheaper than nuclear.On a generous estimate, you'd need 8 GW nameplate capacity of generation plus 96 GWh storage to serve a 1 GW load with reliability. Passing over the fact that NOBODY IN THE WORLD has 96 GWh of storage (the UK has about 30, for an average load of 72 GW), you'd have to inflate the costs of nuclear to Hell and gone before that would be cheaper than 1 GW of fission.
(DIR) Post #B1kLmGLu3EUggPc5om by n_dimension@infosec.exchange
2025-12-29T16:34:36Z
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@publius @collectifission I live in a country with zero nuclear energy, by best estimates it would take us 30 years to bring one online. In the meanwhile 74% of our power is renewables with 300 days in a year on full renewables. By 2027 we will be fully 100% renewable.FULL RENEWABLE POWER.Why would we even want nuke power?And I've just put my house on a 16KW Bat PV system thus NOT paying any power bills for at least 10 years.Which nuke lobby group did you pull these numbers from?Wanna show your work?#solar #renewables
(DIR) Post #B1kLmHQu285U2CxbFY by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-12-29T16:45:42Z
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@n_dimension @collectifission From the first fission critical experiment to the first power-producing reactor (EBR-1) was 9 years. From the first critical experiment in Britain to the first industrial nuclear power plant (Calder Hall) was 7 years. An estimate of 30 years, when the technology can be bought off-the-shelf, suggests something extraordinarily bad about your country.And if you have the land and the capital to totally island yourself with PV and battery, you're an outlier.
(DIR) Post #B1kPlqNP1oOXwAN2Gm by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-12-29T17:30:33Z
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@n_dimension @collectifission A country in a hot-temperate climate with a small population, lots of hydro, fuel-burning transportation, and no heavy industry to speak of can perhaps obtain such results. But that clearly does little for global energy needs.Meanwhile, the need for overbuild of renewables is well established, and to deal with diurnal and sporadic fluctuations, storage equivalent to 96 hours of average demand can be taken as a minimum. Many studies suggest figures up to 3 weeks.
(DIR) Post #B1kaCNO5unknOFz62a by SuperMoosie@mastodon.au
2025-12-29T18:47:21Z
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@publius @n_dimension @collectifission How much electricity has Hinkley C generated?How much has UK solar has bwen built and generatored in the same time?Which is cheaper?
(DIR) Post #B1kaCO7pAmKjg5NcJs by collectifission@greennuclear.online
2025-12-29T19:20:26Z
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@SuperMoosie that gotcha might actually not work as well as you thought 👇(I should update this chart)@publius
(DIR) Post #B1kaCP17rAZMRbFmW8 by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-12-29T19:27:24Z
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@collectifission @SuperMoosie This is a few years old now, but it makes the point.
(DIR) Post #B1kdbR0psIcZjbkIa0 by SuperMoosie@mastodon.au
2025-12-29T19:42:02Z
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@publius @collectifission Ohh look, Grpah made by your mates, the fossil fuel industry, using ancient data.But still irrelevant to what was asked.
(DIR) Post #B1kdbSCvQpszROPT3w by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-12-29T20:05:34Z
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@SuperMoosie @collectifission Ah, yes, nuclear energy, well-known for encouraging the use of fossil fuels, unlike wind and solar.What world are you living in?
(DIR) Post #B1kdi8gKQVOguTLnN2 by SuperMoosie@mastodon.au
2025-12-29T19:31:03Z
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@collectifission @publius @n_dimension The question still stands.How much electricity has Hinkley C generated?How much has UK solar has bwen built and generatored in the same time?Which is cheaper?Information you provided doesn't show anything relevant.Just like previous responses I have had from the two of you. Almost as if you are LLM bots or paid PR from the fossil fuel industry.
(DIR) Post #B1kdiA1HS5kd3kA2fQ by collectifission@greennuclear.online
2025-12-29T19:34:33Z
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@SuperMoosie yawn, added to my ignore list. Not worth my time if you’re going ad hominem when you run out of gotchas.@publius
(DIR) Post #B1kdiBZLgub3rh6lPM by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-12-29T20:06:45Z
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@collectifission @SuperMoosie What is it about Australians?