Comment on US slows plans to retire coal plants because of AI power usage
poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 month agoBattery technology is an extremely well developed field with already existing and currently under construction large production facilities. Battery degradation is also much less on an issue with stationary installations, both due to how they can distribute the load to avoid deep discharging and due to the fact that some drop in total capacity is less relevant. Furthermore, redox-flow batteries basically do not have this issue.
Its pointless to argue what-ifs, when renewables combined with grid level battery storage is the cheaper and more easily scalable solution. Nuclear is an outdated relic of the past, just let it die.
stoy@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Untill I am satisfied that the new grid can deal with baseload I will not stop talking about nuclear power.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Nuclear power in its current form is actively detrimental to grid stability, as it is produced in a few central locations and can not be realistically up and down regulated.
The newly installed decentralised grid batteries in California have just proven that this model works much better.
d4f0@lemmy.world 1 month ago
New nuclear plants can be regulated without problems. Old nuclear plants weren’t designated that way, although they can be improved to be able to do it, but this isn’t usually done as old plants will most likely be shutdown in the short term and investors don’t want to spend any money in them.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
No, hypothetical new modular plants might be better at regulation, but the recently build and still under construction ones are not.