Sun and wind can't match nuclear power

Marlin · Oct 20, 2015, 12:17

Good news for nuclear but yet again not here in the US

Sun and wind can't match nuclear power

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/sun-and-wind-cant-match-nuclear-power/story-e6frg6zo-1227573422340

GLW · Oct 20, 2015, 01:10

Solar power IS nuclear power,...

With eight minutes of time, 93 million miles of distance and 15,000 feet of shielding between us and it,...

kinda like going to Wolf Creek,...

heheheheheheh,...

SloGlo · Oct 20, 2015, 05:08

Quote from: GLW on Oct 20, 2015, 01:10
Solar power IS nuclear power,...

With eight minutes of time, 93 million miles of distance and 15,000 feet of shielding between us and it,...

kinda like going to Wolf Creek,...

heheheheheheh,...

butt that fuel cycle is sew dam long, hardly makes taking the training worth while.

Bonds 25 · Oct 21, 2015, 05:10

Quote from: Rerun on Oct 20, 2015, 01:20
Uh that's an opinion piece...

An opinion that is correct......actually no it's fact.

Capacity Factor

Wind = 30%
Solar = 20%
Nuclear = 90%+

Bonds 25 · Oct 23, 2015, 03:05

Nuclear is BY FAR the greatest energy source we have on the planet. To say otherwise means....you are dumb, uneducated, get bank to say the oppposite or are so anti-nuke you would rather suffer black lung for the purpose of anything but nuke. Shamefull and deserving of prision time.

Rerun · Oct 23, 2015, 11:09

Capacity Factor is a made up term that is used only by nukes and they spend a lot of dollars figuring out capacity factors for the coal industry and other industries that simply don't use it. Its because of the way nukes are operated. I have said many times sun and wind shouldn't be measured. Anything that can't really pick up VARs is useless. On the other hand gas plants are just as clean as nuclear and cost about 90% less.

hamsamich · Oct 23, 2015, 01:23

what complete BS. i guess everyone is entitled to an opinion but sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here.

Bonds 25 · Oct 23, 2015, 07:51

Made up by the Nuke industry.....

Gas just as clean as Nuke.....haha

Maybe coal and gas don't use capacity factor (which they do) because they don't compare to Nuke. You don't see Ferrari using MPG as a selling point either.

Nuclear NASCAR · Oct 23, 2015, 09:31

Capacity factor is a term I heard A LOT last month at a meeting of our CTG group I had the privilege of attending. I heard the same term 30 years ago while I worked in the fossil plants.