2024-04-17
No, not bombs - base load!
The sleuths at Fortune and Freedom have been sorting through the entrails of what passes for government energy policy, and have doubts that more nuclear power plants is the answer to the intermittency of renewables.
This one is a bit technical, but one can see their point. Well, points actually. Flexible response of power generation is necessary when the wind stops blowing and hail destroys the solar panels (or night-time occurs).
Can nuclear solve the intermittency conundrum? Even if the government could miraculously change its record of failure in delivering major projects, with immediate effect?
Still, if the government's equally misguided policy of ever more overtly fomenting war with Russia continues on track, intermittency of the grid may turn out to be the least of our worries.
