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by iso1631 64 days ago
Get a drought and you have to shut them down, ask France.

"Base load" is just some nonsense from nuclear fans to get the cost per GWh down.
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hunterpayne 63 days ago
Base load is an industry term coined by the very engineers who make the grid work. But I'm sure a random poster on an Internet forum knows more than the engineers who actually do the work.

PS France has the cleanest grid in Europe

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iso1631 63 days ago
https://www.pembina.org/blog/baseload-myths-why-we-need-chan...
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