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No, it’s not and you have no clue what you are talking about.

There is a reason even Germany is still heavily dependent on coal despite investing hundreds of billions into renewables

It simply does not work without dispatchable energy sources.

Mycle Schneider does not even have an academic title. He is simply an anti-nuclear activist.

Not going to happen in the foreseeable future. Fossil fuels did not change there relative share the past 30 years.

Which perfectly proves that 90% of the comments in this thread have no clue about energy and think that running a grid on solar and wind only plus some batteries is a solved problem.

Yes, “just” need to build some TWh capacity batteries. No problem at all.

Not going to happen.

So, you are telling me that you can survive by eating seven times the daily ration of an average human and then it nothing the rest of the week?

China is currently building almost 40 nuclear plants at the same time.

Compare the average specific carbon emissions and price per kWh between Germany and France and tell me nuclear is not competitive.

Nuclear is so competitive that they had to ban it in Germany to get rid of it.

Denmark highly depends on imports.

Nuclear power is generated on demand and allows a full decarbonization of the power grid as can be seen France.

Solar just produces when the sun is shining meaning you can’t build a power grid on it.

Just comparing total generation over a year is comparing apples and oranges.

So, you're telling me there is daylight in Spain when we have night in Germany?

Also, have you ever done some research on how winds work? They're usually blowing (or not blowing) across the whole continent.

So, yeah, Dunkelflauten usually cover the whole continent.

We have to build new gas turbines since wind and solar do not provide dispatchable power.

Cool, these are currently supplying 0.06% of their installed capacity:

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/DE/fifteen_minutes

Very useful.

> Wind has nearly as low an LCOE as solar

Because production costs aren't what's setting the prices, supply and demand is.

Cheap solar and wind power doesn't help when it's not available.

Wind and solar power do not provide dispatchable power and they therefore do not replace conventional power plants.

Germany isn't keeping their coal-fired power plants and they're not building new gas-fired power plants despite the energy transition but because of it.

You're spreading conspiracy theories when you claim Katherina Reiche is a fossil fuel puppet. She is doing what has always been the plan for the energy transition: Building gas-fired power plants.

That plan is even in the DENA study for the energy transition:

https://www.dena.de/fileadmin/dena/Dokumente/Pdf/9262_dena-L... (p. 29)

And before you claim DENA is some sort of fossil fuel lobby organization, they're not. DENA belongs to the German state and was founded in 2000 by SPD and Greens:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Energie-Agentur

I agree, America should finally build more nuclear power plants.

China is currently building 37 reactors simultaneously [1].

> [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/513671/number-of-under-c...

»It’s an industrial supply bottleneck and rollout timeline incompatibility rather than a Dr Doom Evil Genius Complex that prevents everyone from deploying solar.«

No, it's just physics.

»Don't understand why.«

Because you cannot turn a large datacenter with thousands of aggregates, power supplies and so on off and on like a toaster.

As long as major countries like Germany are keeping their ban on nuclear power, climate change cannot be that urgent.

It’s really only economics, there is simply no relevant market for mechanical cassette players that would justify the investment.

I don’t think it’s true that the capabilities to make these devices are lost. There are still companies like ALPS that are capable of making the necessary parts.

But in the end, the market is too small to justify any investments.

What's even crazier is that someone vibe-coded ia64 emulation support for QEMU: https://github.com/syunnPC/qemu-system-ia64

»If some businesses get killed in the process, so be it.«

The problem with this attitude is that the rest of the world often doesn’t have these strict regulations and as result, businesses aren’t killed but just leaving the country.

You haven’t dealt with German bureaucracy then.

Ireland consumes roughly 40 TWh per year, that’s less than the production of four EPR reactors or two times Hinkley Point C.

The country could easily solve its electricity problems with nuclear power. They can ask South Korea for help who built four reactors in UAE with 12 years which now provide 25% of the country’s electricity.

Might be because the article doesn’t tell you the whole story.

Well, it’s HN. People love to spread articles that push renewables. In the meantime, France has the cleanest and cheapest electricity among the large countries in Europe.

France is proving every day that load-following is a thing for nuclear reactors.

I don’t understand why people keep spreading this nonsense.

Just stop it, it’s simply untrue!

A nuclear power plant cannot free all of its energy at once as the fuel enrichment is too low for an exponential excursion of power, i.e. an explosion.

The nearby nuclear power plant produced these 6 GWh every four and a half hours, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and more than 8000 days of the year.