• @[email protected]
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    143 months ago

    It’s becoming increasingly common around weekends in France — which gets about two-thirds of its electricity from its atomic fleet

    So they occasionally have to take a nuclear plant offline on a sunny and windy day, because we still don’t have the storage for solar to be an effective baseline.

    • @just_another_person
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      113 months ago

      Well if that’s actually the functioning case, they are investing their effort in the wrong place. They don’t need energy production, they need storage.

      As far as your comment amount solar, we do have solutions that exist. Energy companies just need to actually get off their asses and work them into the grids.

      • @Dimantina
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        33 months ago

        Yeah storage is sadly difficult and time consuming. I mean if we aren’t just using a crap ton of lith-ION.

        • @Specal
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          33 months ago

          Sodium ion batteries are just about ready for mass production, they take up twice the amount of space as lithium but are just as effective and far cheaper

        • @Luvs2Spuj
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          13 months ago

          Hydrogen gets shit on loads, but this is exactly the kind of thing it can do pretty well. When you have excess, you don’t need to have to worry about efficiency in the same way. Then it’s ready to go once needed.

          • @EveryoneDiesAlone
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            13 months ago

            What do you mean by hydrogen?

            Hydrogen production through electrolysis? Or something else?

      • @sudo42
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        Nuclear Power Industry: “We need to invest $10B in nuclear plants!”
        Everyone else: “Why not just spend $1B on battery storage instead?”
        Nuclear Power Industry: “Nah, that’s not feasible.”

      • @[email protected]
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        13 months ago

        While a certain amount of pumped hydro energy storage is feasible, we will never have enough storage to

      • @beebarfbadger
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        13 months ago

        Who would “they” be in that case? The people who’d like cheap energy do indeed need storage. The nuclear lobbies on the other hand need to cripple their competition, so they only need their own, already present facilities and whatever means they can get to sabotage upcoming competition and secure their primary position.

        • @just_another_person
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          13 months ago

          The French? Read the article or the comments I was responding to. 🫰

          • @beebarfbadger
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            03 months ago

            “The French”? The homogenous singular entity that all have one singular set of goals and no differences whatsoever? Or the Frrench people who’d like cheap energy or maybe the French electricity lobbyists? It’s not that simple.

            • @just_another_person
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              The people who live in France who are having this issue with power, as explained in the article and in the comments.

              Seems you’re bored and just attempting to inflame people into discussing how my comment was in no way reductive or trying to represent people in a way they didn’t wish to be. Go touch grass.

              • @beebarfbadger
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                03 months ago

                Oh no. Now I’ve angered the humans.

    • slazer2au
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      83 months ago

      The problem is turning it back on. Xenon poisoning is an issue the prevents reactors switching off and back on again.

  • @SPRUNT
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    63 months ago

    Oh my god!! Won’t somebody think of the profits?!!

  • @EveryoneDiesAlone
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    53 months ago

    Who wants to bet they will still charge for any and all kwh regardless?

  • Aniki
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    13 months ago

    How can electricity prices turn negative?

    Can’t the solar park operators just switch down the park temporarily?

  • @[email protected]
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    13 months ago

    isn’t their next door neighbor Germany having an energy deficit crisis cuz they’ve been dependent on Russian gas for years? Maybe they could match up somehow