Woah_Mad_Frollick t1_iujjq2b wrote on October 31, 2022 at 8:26 PM

Reply to comment by 9Z7EErh9Et0y0Yjt98A4 in New England Utility Urges Biden to Declare Emergency to Avoid Fuel Shortage by Nobiting

Congress just passed the IRA which is going to do a whole lot to unlock clean energy potential, including nuclear. Though a needed permitting reform was supposed to accompany it, and has not yet happened

The government should probably use an option-writing strategy to try and stabilize domestic energy prices in the meantime

DrunicusrexXIII t1_iuk4csf wrote on October 31, 2022 at 10:58 PM

I hate to break this to you, but very little solar power is generated at night, which is when we need heat and light. Ditto for windmills, when there's no wind.

The average windmill costs one million dollars, last ten years, and powers at best 500 homes. The average set of solar panels, absent large taxpayer subsidies, costs $50k, degrades to uselessness in 10 years, and powers one house.

And good luck trying to get a reactor online, when we can't build or maintain even a subway line.

People should've thought of that shit a little earlier in the process. Angry, unemployed, hungry people tend to not vote for environmental things when they're looking for food and fuel. They tend to act more like the cast of Mad Max.

Woah_Mad_Frollick t1_iuk6h6q wrote on October 31, 2022 at 11:15 PM

Storage is becoming more diverse and cheaper by the day. A wide array of clean firm power sources such as advanced geothermal power, more scalable nuclear technologies and Allam Cycle gas can compliment variable renewables nicely. PV panels can be built at utility scale far more efficiently than what can be achieved with rooftop solar. Your estimate of rooftop installation is also more than double top end figures so I don’t know where you’re pulling that out of. Likewise your figure for rooftop PV productive life is off by double. I also already mentioned the need for permitting reform so I’m not going to go back and forth with you about the difficult of getting contemporary nuclear plants built

And did you miss the link I provided which recommended we reverse underinvestment in domestic O&G fields via option writing?