Sweden's parliament on Tuesday (20 June) adopted a new energy target, giving the right-wing government the green light to push forward with plans to build new nuclear plants in a country that voted 40 years ago to phase out atomic power.
And that Article was written by Michael Shellenberger, a person who previously lobbied for the usage of Shale gas and is considered to be a Nuclear Energy lobbyist.
The main energy source in Sweden is Hydroelectric power which is quite good at storing energy at least if you use Pumped-storage hydroelectricity. Additionally the price for batteries goes down each year. The cost for 1KWh of a Salt Water Battery in Switzerland for example is about 800 CHF or 815 € (https://www.energieheld.ch/solaranlagen/stromspeicher/salzspeicher). I chose that specific battery type because it is environmentally friendly and recycleable. If we would start to equip buildings with such batteries, we could store more and more energy decentralized which would make the energy grid way more stable in the long run.
Meanwhile last December many Nuclear power plants in France shut down, resulting in massive price hikes for electricity. That’s the reason my electricity bill doubled out of nothing. So no, Nuclear Power Plants are not making our electricity prices more stable.
Additionally Europe is quite huge. Sure, there are times where there is now wind or sun in Sweden but then you have Portugal which is connected to the same grid. If done right using renewables is going to create a more stable electricity grid and actually help regular people to afford electricity by generating it themselves.
I notice that you keep attacking the sources because they’re in favor of nuclear energy.
Which is kind of stupid considering that I’m giving you articles that are written in favor of nuclear energy. It shows that you are acting in bad faith here.
As to hydroelectric… There are issues. There’s a pretty massive environmental impact of putting a new lake in the middle of an active river system, and then there’s the methane.
There’s a reason why the Sierra Club used to have a slogan that read “Atoms, not Dams”. Well, they had that slogan until the fossil fuel industry started outright paying to sabotage nuclear energy.
And that Article was written by Michael Shellenberger, a person who previously lobbied for the usage of Shale gas and is considered to be a Nuclear Energy lobbyist.
The main energy source in Sweden is Hydroelectric power which is quite good at storing energy at least if you use Pumped-storage hydroelectricity. Additionally the price for batteries goes down each year. The cost for 1KWh of a Salt Water Battery in Switzerland for example is about 800 CHF or 815 € (https://www.energieheld.ch/solaranlagen/stromspeicher/salzspeicher). I chose that specific battery type because it is environmentally friendly and recycleable. If we would start to equip buildings with such batteries, we could store more and more energy decentralized which would make the energy grid way more stable in the long run.
Meanwhile last December many Nuclear power plants in France shut down, resulting in massive price hikes for electricity. That’s the reason my electricity bill doubled out of nothing. So no, Nuclear Power Plants are not making our electricity prices more stable.
Additionally Europe is quite huge. Sure, there are times where there is now wind or sun in Sweden but then you have Portugal which is connected to the same grid. If done right using renewables is going to create a more stable electricity grid and actually help regular people to afford electricity by generating it themselves.
I notice that you keep attacking the sources because they’re in favor of nuclear energy.
Which is kind of stupid considering that I’m giving you articles that are written in favor of nuclear energy. It shows that you are acting in bad faith here.
As to your claims that nuclear power isn’t stable because France had its reactors down for scheduled maintenance and a war broke out that impacted their backup power supply…
It’s a good thing that France doesn’t listen to you about energy policy.
As to hydroelectric… There are issues. There’s a pretty massive environmental impact of putting a new lake in the middle of an active river system, and then there’s the methane.
There’s a reason why the Sierra Club used to have a slogan that read “Atoms, not Dams”. Well, they had that slogan until the fossil fuel industry started outright paying to sabotage nuclear energy.