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by gwbas1c
988 days ago
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> Nuclear has a fixed output, it doesn’t scale up and down the way fossil fuel plants do. This is a very, very old, and very, very solved problem. Today we'd solve it with batteries: Discharge when demand outstrips supply, recharge when supply outstrips demand. In the past, nuclear power was often paired with pumped storage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit... Today a lot of pumped storage facilities have outlasted the nuclear power plants they were built to support. Instead of pumping at night, they pump when there's excess solar or wind. |
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