mirddes's comments

On: EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy

[mirddes]

it would be unwise to put all of ones eggs in someone else's basket.

having as much wind solar and nuclear as possible will ensure humanity has a bright future. 18% seems like a good number. how much storage are they investing in?

[bobthepanda → mirddes]

> "They're installing 1GW per month of pumped hydro storage," Mr Buckley said.

Fun fact, pumped hydro was actually developed for nuclear originally in the 70s, since nuclear is a large source of power that is hard to ramp down during low demand periods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power...

[eichin → bobthepanda]

Err, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlewood_Lake was completed in 1928 (for electrical demand regulation.) Much older than nuclear...

[bobthepanda → eichin]

My bad. It's still notable that the sixth largest one in the world was still developed for nuclear plants.

[Retric → eichin]

Which is kind of funny as they where storing energy from a hydroelectric power plant, so building a larger dam would have been way more energy efficient.

[bobthepanda → Retric]

Connecticut isn’t very elevated so a dam at a higher level may not have been very practical.