And why in heaven's name would you use SMRs for DEFR? If you have the Nuclear Reactors, you don't need the "renewables". Using Nuclear as DEFR is as stupid an idea as possible. Let the SMRs run 24/7/365 to provide Baseload power, and stop building that ridiculous Wind and Solar and BESS infrastructure. I can't believe that using SMRs for backup is even considered! Who came up with that? Must have been a Wind and Solar investor.
The answer starts with putting an end to ALL energy subsidies, then move ASAP to Nuclear. Given what the BRICS nations are doing, nothing we do to reduce CO2 will matter anyway. Of course, we could all go back and watch Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" again, just to verify how horribly wrong the promotors of "climate crisis" and "attribution science" have been. After all, the only reason we are going through this nonsense is because of a huge (and intentional) fabrication. Read Happer et al and consider the saturation of CO2 Greenhouse Effect.
The myth of free energy from wind and solar paradoxically is similar to the myth of CO2 driven climate change. The fact that solar energy is greatly diminished in the winter months, the sun does not shine at night, power from wind is a cube function not to mention that we cannot store electrical power seems to have been largely ignored by the net zero fanatics.
All this arm-waving about green energy, net-zero, and so on, is just pure propaganda. The "alternative" energy "sources" (such as wind and solar) aren't energy rich enough: that is, they can't, even in aggregate, make-up for a loss of fossil fuel input. The future, one way or another, is going to be energy poor (compared to the 20th century). Maybe that's why TPTB are so committed to depopulation.
In other words ….putting it into engineering language.. an unnecessary shitshow
I love it when you talk technical. ;-)
I just wish it was not so true.
And why in heaven's name would you use SMRs for DEFR? If you have the Nuclear Reactors, you don't need the "renewables". Using Nuclear as DEFR is as stupid an idea as possible. Let the SMRs run 24/7/365 to provide Baseload power, and stop building that ridiculous Wind and Solar and BESS infrastructure. I can't believe that using SMRs for backup is even considered! Who came up with that? Must have been a Wind and Solar investor.
I agree, but what else is there? Green Hydrogen as DEFR? Pumped hydro? Compressed air?
We don't NEED renewables and BESS. The path to a reliable low emission grid is natural gas to nuclear, from SMRs to GW scale.
The answer starts with putting an end to ALL energy subsidies, then move ASAP to Nuclear. Given what the BRICS nations are doing, nothing we do to reduce CO2 will matter anyway. Of course, we could all go back and watch Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" again, just to verify how horribly wrong the promotors of "climate crisis" and "attribution science" have been. After all, the only reason we are going through this nonsense is because of a huge (and intentional) fabrication. Read Happer et al and consider the saturation of CO2 Greenhouse Effect.
The myth of free energy from wind and solar paradoxically is similar to the myth of CO2 driven climate change. The fact that solar energy is greatly diminished in the winter months, the sun does not shine at night, power from wind is a cube function not to mention that we cannot store electrical power seems to have been largely ignored by the net zero fanatics.
The Net Zero fanatics are the new version of the three monkeys:
See no criticism
Hear no criticism
Speak no criticism
Sun and wind are free. Collecting them is expensive. Storing them is even more expensive.
All this arm-waving about green energy, net-zero, and so on, is just pure propaganda. The "alternative" energy "sources" (such as wind and solar) aren't energy rich enough: that is, they can't, even in aggregate, make-up for a loss of fossil fuel input. The future, one way or another, is going to be energy poor (compared to the 20th century). Maybe that's why TPTB are so committed to depopulation.
Natural gas to nuclear and skip the energy poverty.