Posts by ElTico@greennuclear.online
(DIR) Post #AbBj1g8AnpAiH90qeG by ElTico@greennuclear.online
2023-10-27T03:47:32Z
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@peterbrown @erinwhalen 1/3My country Costa Rica has indeed made a lot of progress in building an electric grid from mostly low carbon sources. However, Costa Rica is not 100% renewable, not even focusing on just electricity and not even close if we take non-electric energy into account. (See the attached image, source https://www.iea.org/countries/costa-rica)
(DIR) Post #AbBj1igHJzdoBUz75M by ElTico@greennuclear.online
2023-10-27T03:48:45Z
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@peterbrown @erinwhalen 2/3Costa Rica (and Uruguay) import a lot of oil for transportation. And even if we focus on electricity only, Costa Rica is at best 98% renewable. We have bunker oil plants such as Garabito (200MW), which is (one) of the bunker or diesel backups that we have for the dry season. See the attached image where you can see 324MW being generated by oil and the share of renewable energy dropping below 80% earlier this year on May 12.
(DIR) Post #AbBj1m0awufuVNVsfY by ElTico@greennuclear.online
2023-10-27T03:49:32Z
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@peterbrown @erinwhalen 3/3Personally I'd much rather have my country build one BWRX-300 to replace all of the oil we use to backup renewables. I'm not a fan of Geothermal because it involves fracking we have enough tremors as it is here, biomass is just bad, takes too much land and water. We have already built wind turbines at all the good spots we had, and it's too cloudy here for solar to make a significant contribution.
(DIR) Post #AbCvrDtARaxALoIZMm by ElTico@greennuclear.online
2023-10-27T17:35:42Z
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@peterbrown @erinwhalen I know you have good intentions, I know you are just as concerned as I am about climate change. And I thank the appreciation for the efforts that we made so far. However, you can't just say Costa Rica is 100% renewables and imply that every country can do the same because neither is true. First, it's 98%, second, without that 2% of bunker and diesel there would be blackouts almost every day every dry seasons like we already had once in 2008.
(DIR) Post #AbCvrF9rizu8Ht7Q24 by ElTico@greennuclear.online
2023-10-27T17:40:09Z
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@peterbrown @erinwhalen And third, the way we achieved that 98% is highly specific to the geography available here. I want my country to completely phaseout fossil fuels. But there is NO way that can be achieved with just more renewables, and especially not with your suggestion below that we breach our dams, and replace them with more wind that we just don't have and micro hydro that together just wouldn't generate the same energy that we generate today, and would be more expensive to maintain.
(DIR) Post #AdA2EDpCPMacZpDsY4 by ElTico@greennuclear.online
2023-12-25T04:55:40Z
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@grillchen @collectifission @MartinBe Nuclear is as emission free as wind or solar.
(DIR) Post #AdCJHhOozh7qhr34RE by ElTico@greennuclear.online
2023-12-26T00:37:28Z
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@collectifission @eliasp Even cheap motherboards for computer desktops have two bios chips in case the main one gets damaged or corrupted during a bios update. Imagine spending a $20k or more for a car that gets broken because the manufacturer couldn't spare a few cents on a backup ROM.
(DIR) Post #Aq5dXTnyfVLG2kFJrs by ElTico@greennuclear.online
2025-01-15T00:48:26Z
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@stux SOUL
(DIR) Post #AqIfn5PPrlBrybo3CC by ElTico@greennuclear.online
2025-01-21T07:44:59Z
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@publius synfuels made in high temperature nuclear reactors let's gooo
(DIR) Post #AqxjtBse3czbTOSRii by ElTico@greennuclear.online
2025-02-10T03:14:04Z
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@publius To be honest I'm more worried that now that finally democrats became pro-nuclear, republicans would go all in on fossil fuels and say they support nuclear while doing nothing to support it. I hope this means republicans will actually support it. Fossil fuels may make sense in the very short term for a quick economy boost. But the long term plan should still be decarbonization with clean, low carbon energy sources including (but not limiting only to) nuclear energy.