That’s cool. And I’ll continue to engage with you despite your tenuous grasp of basic logic. And you continuing to berate me despite my hardly disagreeing with any fact that you’ve actually posted.
I wish I could say the same thing about not being logical, but it’s bad and will have far reaching effects beyond energy discussions.
Anyway,
What I was really after is what your point was. Dispatchability is a good thing and according to the source nuclear is the cheapest. Also the linked source showed nuclear to be pretty close to solar and wind. As I mentioned earlier, those error bars are pretty wide.
OK, so now we are finally at one of the very few possible factual issues that I am questioning. I think other posters seem to be saying that your statement above is untrue. Are you saying that even after accounting for waste, decommissioning cost, etc. nuclear is the cheapest dispatchable source? I think the hydro-slappies might have a bone to pick with you on that one.
Obviously. As I said above, there are widely varying methodologies that are employed by those who put out these cost estimates. In many cases, people just choose the methodology that reinforces their priors.
I’m very pro-wind and solar, so I’m not sure what you’re trying to convince me of.
FWIW, the source provided did show that nuclear LTO was even cheaper than solar or wind.
If you had read what I wrote earlier, you may recall I was talking about expanding nuclear power only in such grids. It seems even you agree that there will be some benefit for some unspecified period of time.
and some optimism from talks between rival Palestinian groups, a rare meeting apparently, since a bit of a Palestinian civil war or ‘friction,’ ‘starting’ back in 2007.
Damn, I would’ve guessed France’s figure to be like 33% of USA’s. Seemed like almost nobody I knew while living in Lyon ever used a car whereas basically every single person I know in the USA has 1 (or 2) car and never uses public transportation.
Probably sampling bias here, combined with all french cities allow you to not use cars while only like 5-10 US ones do. People in Europe that aren’t in cities aren’t really driving a lot less than US folks, except for the shorter distances to get places.
Ratio is about the same, but I think I made a different mistake. The stat I found was distance per car I think and I found cars per person somewhere else. Hmm… not sure and I’m not finding it now. It did strike me as low. I should have been more careful, but I was trying to get a few different stats quickly.
Another staggering metric is the measure of garbage (rubbish!) weight per person. USA was #1 in that department. Until the local authorities limit the size of these USIANS home dumpsters, like in the first world, the manufacturers wont be forced to cut packaging. Will dig out after i get the kids to bed
Holy fuck. Parts of Northern Argentina and Chile have been experiencing temperatures 20+ degrees Celsius above normal. That’s nearly 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
The part that made me maddest was that the province – the one with over a trillion litres worth of tailing pond waste and about 200,000 orphan oil wells that they look at and go “meh” – just had to spend months investigating what happens to renewable projects when they reach end of life. Smith is just trolling everyone right out in the open.
Massively under-reported science story because there's so much going on right now but...it turns out that we might have figured out what's causing this very scary spike.
Quick thread, on how WE'VE BEEN ACCIDENTALLY GEOENGINEERING FOR DECADES...but then we stopped: pic.twitter.com/pLWzgOr8C7
