Why America’s Old Nuclear Plants Could Be Dragging Down Clean Energy Development

[Marlin]

Why America’s Old Nuclear Plants Could Be Dragging Down Clean Energy Development


https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604269/why-americas-old-nuclear-plants-could-be-dragging-down-clean-energy-development/?set=604275

[Chimera]

From the article:

"But according to Bloomberg’s report, that investment could be damaging the renewables sector. In a painful one-two, clean energy funds are being diverted away from solar and wind projects to keep the nukes running, while sometimes overly high baseload supplies maintained by continued use of old nuclear keeps energy prices low, making investment in renewables less attractive."

"Clean energy funds" is just short-hand for government largesse.  The article further admits that nuclear is the best source of "low-carbon energy" to handle the base-load needs to maintain a steady supply of electrical energy to the country.  The article is comparing apples to cumquats when talking about solar and wind in the same sentence as nuclear.

[GLW]

............The article is comparing apples to cumquats when talking about solar and wind in the same sentence as nuclear.

now you know, having grown up in central FLA, I was familiar with both kumquats and loquats in my own yard, and scattered throughout the neighborhood yards and surrounding environs,...

the first mentioned is too sour, the second is pretty good, the second does take a lot of work to get at the good bits,...

I don't know what the fruit you typed up is, what it looks like or where it grows,....