Nuclear for the win, even though I believe this isn’t a comprehensive analysis of pollution, but I still believe nuclear to be the least polluting of all forms of energy generation so far.
Grids usually need a scalable base load and wind and solar for now needs a way to store the power for when it is needed, so usually these storage methods are not always counted towards cost and pollution.
But innovative ideas are coming each day.
But cannot wait for the world to truly embrace nuclear power
As far as I know nuclear is not scalable at all. Once you start the reaction, you have a more or less constant output. No chance to dynamically increase or decrease according to the highly volatile demand.
Gas, hydropower etc. can be controlled to the second. Even wind and solar allow you at least in one direction to lower the output if there is an oversupply in the grid.
Nuclear is the worst type of energy to be combined with renewables.
It is absolutely pilotable, but it generally doesn’t make sense economically to do so: most of the cost of electricity production is fixed regardless of the output.
EDF says they are able to make their reactors go up or down by 80% in 30 minutes, it’s not as good as hydro or gas but it’s certainly something
You might be interested in page 35 of their source document. It goes into some detail about the extra emissions required for storage of solar towards the bottom.
Nuclear for the win, even though I believe this isn’t a comprehensive analysis of pollution, but I still believe nuclear to be the least polluting of all forms of energy generation so far.
Grids usually need a scalable base load and wind and solar for now needs a way to store the power for when it is needed, so usually these storage methods are not always counted towards cost and pollution.
But innovative ideas are coming each day. But cannot wait for the world to truly embrace nuclear power
As far as I know nuclear is not scalable at all. Once you start the reaction, you have a more or less constant output. No chance to dynamically increase or decrease according to the highly volatile demand.
Gas, hydropower etc. can be controlled to the second. Even wind and solar allow you at least in one direction to lower the output if there is an oversupply in the grid.
Nuclear is the worst type of energy to be combined with renewables.
It is absolutely pilotable, but it generally doesn’t make sense economically to do so: most of the cost of electricity production is fixed regardless of the output.
EDF says they are able to make their reactors go up or down by 80% in 30 minutes, it’s not as good as hydro or gas but it’s certainly something
You might be interested in page 35 of their source document. It goes into some detail about the extra emissions required for storage of solar towards the bottom.