Hellgruen

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[–] Hellgruen@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

Whistleblower says water is wet

[–] Hellgruen@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That doesn’t change the fact that battery storage is a business case with exponential growth and is just taking off while nuclear power is expensive, takes long time to plan and build and all the new fancy stuff is still hypothetical and it’s not certain it will ever take off in regard of recent bankruptcy’s in the smr field

[–] Hellgruen@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

For context, that’s growth, not total capacity. And after covid one would suspect ppl would understand exponential growth and to understand what that means for a business Modell $$$

Also we don’t need capacity for the whole output of a year.

[–] Hellgruen@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Coal and nuclear re very bad for regulating power spikes because they are inflexible and can’t be turned on or off very fast. That’s why most country’s build gas as an intermediary power source right now

[–] Hellgruen@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Like Fukushima, three miles island or Tschernobyl?

[–] Hellgruen@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago

Germany has tried no such thing lol. Actually there are appliances for gigantic amounts of battery storage because it’s a simple buy low sell high business case that everybody wants to get into.

[–] Hellgruen@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Global nuclear power growth is a hoax. Doesn’t change the rest of my Statement that nuclear is always subsidized by the state and super expensive

[–] Hellgruen@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

Grid battery storage is booming right now, one of the biggest scaling technologies right now. No cabins involved.

[–] Hellgruen@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I concede the nuclear warheads part. Still true fir a lot of countries tho.

The fun thing about smr is that investors are fleeing and the start ups are going bancrupt. Additionally when the nuclear power plants were initially developed they had to upscale the to high size because the big overhead of maintenance, safety measures and poor yield from heat power coupling only gives a small net power output. So to make it work they had to make it big. Now they try to make it small again. Apart from some niche use they won’t make a big difference.

[–] Hellgruen@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 week ago (19 children)

There is no nuclear Power plant in the whole world, that’s entirely run by a private corporation. They are all heavily subsidized by the states. And all of those states either have nuclear warheads or want to build some. Nuclear is just too expensive.

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