Nuclear Now

[stevenal]

Just watched the Oliver Stone film. Impressive treatment of the subject. Available pay-per view. I recommend it.

 

[GregLocock]

Never heard of it. Here's wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Now

Nuclear is expensive. About $10B/GW. Wind and solar and batteries comes in at only $30B/GW of 24/7 power, although to be fair there is another 1.5 GW of 'free' power when the sun shines or the wind blows more than average, if you have systems that can use that.

Nuclear takes time to build. In China (or the UK) they can do it in 4 years. In UAE the first nuke took 8 years to build, with the rest of the complex coming in 1 year stages. But it takes about 5 years to get a windmill farm on-line in Australia, and they last for 26 years. A nuke will last for 60 years.
"In a first clue as to what might be the future for some ageing wind farms sites, renewable energy company Pacific Blue says it will not repower the country’s oldest commercial wind farm at Codrington in Victoria.

The 18.2 megawatt (MW) Codrington wind farm was commissioned in 2001 and will be decommissioned in 2027, a Pacific Blue spokesperson told Renew Economy on Monday."

Good riddance to that eyesore.

 

[stevenal]

Free viewing on Roku.