Comment on Nuclear too slow to replace coal, and baseload “simply can’t compete” with wind and solar, AEMO boss says

• PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  UK has wind.

  I’m taking east Europe for instance.

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  • ticho@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    FWIW, Baltic countries are going hard for solar, see lemmy.world/post/17098210

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    • blimpkun@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Baltics powered by Finnish and Swedish nuclear.

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      • ticho@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well, that’s a bald-faced lie. Maybe if we were only talking about Lithuania, which does import big chunk of its energy budget from Sweden, but Estonia and Latvia generate most of their energy on their own - and according to the linked article, plan to generate even more in near future.

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    • PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Everyone is or at least tries to portray they are. Your article could be written for almost any country in the world.

      But that doesn’t mean a country can be run on solar alone.

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      • kaffiene@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Who is suggesting solar alone?

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      • ticho@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, the article definitely could not be written for any country in the world, because it lists concrete actions, numbers for past few years, and concrete plans for next few years.

        But judging from your comments here and elsewhere in the thread, you do not care about discussion, and will move goalposts whenever it suits you. You are not a nice person. So, PLONK.

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  • Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why does eastern Europe get less sunlight?

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    • PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Less than Spain. There is a winter. Geography and suitable areas less common. Distribution network made for power plants.

      Nuclear plants can be a better cost effective fit.

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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s like 3 am there

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• The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Until a weather event blocks out most of the sunlight. An extreme scenario would be what happened to the dinosaurs, however smaller scale versions or that, such as large volcano eruptions, seem entirely possible and could heavily restrict the amount of sunlight you have access to for long periods of time.

  Portugal lies in Southern Europe, we get plenty of sun, and we make heavy use of solar, but that still isn’t enough sometimes, and I’m pretty sure we sometimes get our energy from Spain, who themselves use nuclear.

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• intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Darkovia has zero sun

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